W.I.N. Wednesday: Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow.

"Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow. The two hours you spent on a book or movie usually took two years to produce. Anyone can tear down someone else’s work. The true test of insight is whether you can help them improve it or build something of your own."

Adam Grant Ph.D.

It is easy to be a critic and criticize, find fault with and tear down the work of others. It is easy to be the opposition, and simply criticize the work of the other party without offering viable solutions. As Wharton Professor Adam Grant points out in the above quote, “Criticizing is easy and fast. Creating is difficult and slow.” 

It is easy to post something on social media running down the work, efforts, and decisions of others. It is far harder to do the research and seek to understand the thought process and efforts that went into making the decision. It is “easy and fast” to trash something in 140 characters that took weeks, months, or years to create. 

It takes far more effort and courage to create something and then put it out there for the world to see and judge. Judgement too often done with limited information and little to no insights into the work that went into the creation of the product. 

If you have the courage to create, then accept there will always be critics and haters. The critics will always find fault and the haters will always hate. Have the courage to show up, to create and to ship your work anyways. 

What’s Important Now? The world needs people who have the courage to create and the insight to help others build upon and improve upon what they have created. 

Take care.

Brian Willis

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