Never good enough
For days when you're your own harshest measure.
Eight lessons about self-criticism: how to notice it sooner, test its rules, and respond clearly to mistakes without writing yourself off as a person.
The lessons
- 01Reflection · 5 min
The tone you use with yourself
Recognise your own inner tone, without believing it or fighting it straight away.
- 02Meditation · 6 min
A sentence isn't a truth yet
Put a little distance in the wording between you and a self-critical thought.
- 03Reflection · 6 min
What the critic may be trying to prevent
Check whether the harshness is meant to motivate or to protect you from rejection, and what it actually does.
- 04Reflection · 6 min
The rule in the background
Make rigid conditions like faultless, fast or always helpful visible and testable.
- 05Everyday practice · 6 min
Other people too
Deliberately finish one small thing at good enough rather than perfect, and watch what happens.
- 06Reflection · 6 min
The smallest true sentence
Answer something hard with a believable, supportive sentence instead of a grand mantra.
- 07Everyday practice · 6 min
When something goes wrong
Take responsibility without turning a mistake into a verdict on the whole person.
- 08Everyday practice · 6 min
Not better than anyone else
Build a personal plan for self-criticism that doesn't depend on performance or comparison.
The length is calculated, not estimated: it follows from the spoken text and the pauses inside it. What it says here is how long it takes.
How the course works
The lessons build on each other — lesson two knows what happened in lesson one and picks it up. You listen and follow; between the sentences there is silence, where nothing has to happen. You choose the voice and the background sound yourself, and if you play a lesson a second time you get a different welcome than the first time.
The first lesson is free, with no time limit. Everything else is part of Gentle Plus at $4.99 a month or $39.99 a year, cancellable any time.
