I think one thing I love the most about all my friends from UK is their uncanny ability to hand you your ass on a platter without a single profanity and upset you to the point that can’t even reply because you’re so paralyzed from shock of what is perhaps the worst insult you’ve ever had thrown your way.

Mark Crall had once called me a sadistic piece of sh.. because he figured out that I am motivated by the negative feedback. Can you blame me? I’m an engineer and I live to fix things. When nothing is broken things get boring, very quickly. Throw on top of that the great unrealistic bullsh.. motivators / performance coaches of our culture, like Tony Robbins (find out what you do when you’re really at your peak and then apply it whenever you needed) misleading people into thinking its not their fault they suck.

Yes, it’s your fault, the sooner you snap out of it the better for all of us.

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I implore you to watch this video. It is of a British chef talking to an obviously deluded individual. When we are being criticized we tend to become defensive or apologetic or ignore what is being thrown at us because we do not want to accept the problem as one that was caused by our own doing. Watch Gordon Ramsey take this poor guy apart:

Even Glen Ross would be impressed. What motivates you?

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