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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

It’s obvious and you would be deluded into thinking everyone you interact with likes you.

But how do you feel it?

Context: I’m a course instructor and I get direct reviews on my lessons and around 95% of feedback is positive to very positive.

There’s less than 5% of my reviews that have real negative and non-constructive comments. Things like accusations of being incompetent or unprepared or full of shit, etc. They mention times I had technical difficulties or made a mistake (like giving an incorrect response)

Just by the numbers alone this is a very small minority overall. Yet these comments stick in my head and make me doubt my abilities.

So what are your strategies or ways you drown out this stuff?

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I just stopped caring. Why should it matter if people like me? Life is a very short, fleeting construct. Wasting time worrying about what some other human thinks of me makes literally no difference in the grand cosmos. I’d rather put my energy toward something interesting.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Indifference. They let just any ignorant sack of shit with working thumbs access review pages; and a lot of people aren't just ignorant in this day and age, they are proudly and willfully ignorant. The only people whose critique I take seriously are those I know and trust, everyone else can suck-start a chainsaw imo.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

work on your self-confidence and self esteem. go check a psychologist.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Wish I could help with the strategy. I don't deal with this in any way, I genuinely don't care if someone likes me or not. I actually don't think about it. I understand this can be a problem and mess with one's confidence in a situation like yours, but the numbers speak for themselves - you are in a good place.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

There are 9-10 billion people on this planet.

Among those people, you have countless personal preference based on everything from what they expect to what makes them comfortable based on past experience.

There are also 10% or so with ADHD and other things, changing it up even more.

So run all of that through a computer showing you a majority of the likely outcomes, and there you go. There’s no way that your style, your choice of content, your presentation, how you present the material, etc, will please everyone because it’s impossible to do.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

These 5% of negative reviews probably has nothing to do with you. There's always a small amount of people unhappy for random or unrelated reasons (broke up with boy/girlfriend, car broke, etc) and who would write negative reviews no matter what. It's possible they cannot dissociate the course from other things happening in their life. They just happened to be unhappy at that time, and felt like leaving a nasty review.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I prefer to be liked as opposed to being disliked but I take pride when certain people dislike me

[-] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago

Are you fucking serious? Did you never get bullied in school as a kid or something? Are you that privileged? What the fuck.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yep 100% serious. I was bullied quite a bit in school so I’m not sure how you’re drawing this conclusion. Sorry you’re upset though.

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