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Don’t take it to heart

If, on the other hand, someone takes every opportunity to disparage your work and they speak about your mistakes in a way that implies that you’re inferior than they are, that’s destructive. For instance, someone must have often told Jeremy Lin to quit basketball, saying along the lines of: “You’re Asian. You’re short. You’re slow slow. You’ll never be any good.”

And somewhere along the way, Lin must have learned to grow some thick skin and not to get upset or distracted. In other words, he ignored his detractors and kept playing ball. That’s why Lin, a Harvard graduate, is having a lot of fun in New York, proving his critics all wrong.

In other words, Lin did not take disparaging remarks from others to heart – otherwise all the Linsane stuff that’s got sports fans of all colors and ilk on the edge of the seat would have long ago gone to naught.

Anyways, the phrase to learn here is not to take destructive criticism to heart, and that means not to take it seriously lest it affect your desire to improve and get better. See, the heart is the bosom where you keep something close and dear. You take a friend to bosom and that means you treasure them and value their company. Take something to heart, and you take it deep. And if it’s something bad that you take to heart with, you’re deeply hurt. It bothers you. You cannot forget it.