IF YOU ARE INSULTED, CHECK YOUR EXTREME
IF YOU ARE INSULTED, CHECK YOUR EXTREME. People Attack Those Who Do Too Much Good—and Those Who Do Too Much Bad. A man shares genuine progress about his company. Someone replies: “This group is not for personal branding.” A traveller is pushed aggressively by a stranger at a hotel entrance over something as small as bags touching. A businessman keeps learning and implementing new management systems. Some people resist because change disturbs comfort. A person leaves drinking and late-night partying. Some friends call him antisocial. An author writes continuously. People ask: “Why so many books?” Recognition comes repeatedly. People ask: “How can one person receive so many awards?” What do all these situations have in common? Visibility creates opinion. Movement creates friction. Extremes create attention. But here is the danger: Not every person receiving criticism is doing something great. People doing extremely wrong things are criticised too. So the question is not: “Why am I being insulted?” The better question is: “Which extreme am I on?” Are you extreme in: Discipline? Learning? Hard work? Creation? Responsibility? Good karma? Then criticism may simply be the price of becoming unusually visible. But are you extreme in: Greed? Ego? Dishonesty? Vanity? Bad habits? Wrong karma? Then the criticism may be a warning. This book is not about ignoring critics. It is about learning how to audit yourself without becoming controlled by them. Take the data. Leave the poison. Fight only the battles that matter. Don’t become the person who insults you. Let recognition increase responsibility—not ego. Let discipline increase strength—not rigidity. Let ambition increase creation—not greed. And above all—Let dharma decide your direction. Because praise can be wrong. Insult can be wrong. The crowd can be wrong. And you can be wrong too. So check. Correct when required. Continue when right. And never reduce good karma merely to make average people comfortable. IF YOU ARE INSULTED, CHECK YOUR EXTREME.
