Comments on: Happiness is LOW C / C4

By: Alexis

Alexis — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:40:45 +0000

Michele …Wow. I love your blog. I’ve been researching about happiness for a project I’m working on and your studies are terrific. They remind me of the studies Karen Salmansohn posts on her blog at www.notsalmon.com and has on her Sirius radio show Be Happy Dammit. You should write to her and maybe she’ll have you on her radio show! Keep up the fabulous posts! Gee! I just improved my c/c4 ratio by complimenting you!!

By: Sophiagurl

Sophiagurl — Mon, 07 May 2007 17:05:01 +0000

I totally that criticism is not productive. I work with 12 people in my team and I believe those 4 Cs will be very helpful. Would you know if your book is available here in the Philippines. I love inspirational books…incidentally i tagged you! I hope you don’t mind. please check out my recent post for the details. =)

By: Ville

Ville — Sun, 06 May 2007 09:49:07 +0000

You have very nice blog. It gives me some ideas to my own blog and of course ideas how my life would be happier. So thank you and keep up the good work!

By: CJ

CJ — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:52:36 +0000

I think that “good criticism” is occasionally appropriate but has a very different and recognizable quality: namely, it springs forth spontaneously out of genuine concern for the other person. However, the more common “bad criticism” generally arises from some sort of irritability. Often it is just criticising someone for being different to ourselves, even if their viewpoint is not necessarily wrong. Sometimes it arises from jealousy, when we criticise another to “take them off their pedestal and put them back in their place”.

I find that when I focus on the 4 C’s, criticism dies away, and if I do ever offer some advice, it has a very different quality.