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Aristotle - Say nothing. Do nothing. Be nothing. And no one will criticize you · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Andrew McGivern, and let's jump into today's
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  quote from Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher whose
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  ideas still shape how we think about ethics, logic and human
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  nature. He once said say nothing, do
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  nothing, be nothing, and no one will criticize you.
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  This might be the most brutally honest quote about criticism
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  ever written. Aristotle isn't giving advice
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  here, he's stating a hard truth. If you want to avoid criticism,
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  the solution is simple. Disappear.
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  Say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.
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  And yeah, if you do that, no one will criticize you.
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  You'll be completely safe from judgement.
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  You'll also be completely irrelevant because here's what
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  Aristotle understood 2400 years ago.
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  Criticism is the price of participation.
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  It's the cost of doing anything meaningful.
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  Say something bold, Someone will disagree.
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  Say something different, someone will say you're doing it wrong.
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  Be someone who stands for something and someone will tear
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  you down. That's not a bug, that's a
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  feature of being alive and engaged in the world.
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  The only way to avoid criticism is to remove yourself from the
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  arena entirely, To make yourself so small, so quiet, so
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  invisible, that there's nothing for anyone to criticize.
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  But most people don't actually choose that path consciously.
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  They choose it by default. They avoid speaking up because
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  someone might disagree. They avoid trying something new
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  because someone might judge them.
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  They avoid becoming who they want to be because someone might
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  criticize them. They think they're being smart.
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  They think they're protecting themselves.
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  What they're actually doing is choosing to be nothing.
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  And Aristotle is showing what that costs us.
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  So here's the question. What are you not saying, not
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  doing or not becoming because you're afraid of criticism?
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  Because if you want to avoid all criticism, Aristotle's formula
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  works perfectly. Say nothing, do nothing, be
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  nothing. But if you actually want to
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  live, criticism comes with the territory, and I'd say it's a
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  pretty good sign that you're doing the right thing.
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  That's it for today. I'm Anna McGivern, signing off
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  for now, but I'll be back tomorrow.
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  Same pod time, same pod station with another daily quote.