The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism … - Steven Pressfield

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The professional learns to recognize envy-driven criticism and to take it for what it is: the supreme compliment. The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

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Steven Pressfield (born September 1943) is an American author of historical fiction and non-fiction, and screenplays.

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The critic hates most that which he would have done himself if he had had the guts.

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