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Today’s Word: pay attention

Today’s Word: pay attention

November 27, 2017     =========

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If you pay attention to someone, you watch them, listen to them, or take notice of them. In the Q&A this month, the question is “What do you do when someone criticizes you?” and the first answer is, “I pay attention, it might be insightful.” Do you think this is good advice? If someone is criticizing you, are you likely to pay attention or ignore it?

In fact, we have another quote this week, similar to some of the ideas we have already covered, this time by Mozart, “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame.” If you “pay no attention” it means thatRead more about Today’s Word: pay attention[…]