You should start worrying. People tell you because they care and they want you to change for the better. True, not everything they say will be true. But at least, you will still have something which you can learn from.

Imagine if nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody bothers to waste their energy telling you what you should do and what you shouldn’t do. This will make it very hard for you to improve yourself since you wouldn’t know what to change. This normally will happen if people give up hope on you.

It’s just like a company. As a new joiner, you’ll be motivated to make a difference…a change in the company. You’ll voice out your opinions and throw in suggestions after suggestions. But if there’s no changes……then you’ll gradually join the rest of the employees – keep quiet. You wouldn’t bother to voice out your opinions anymore since you’ve tried that and it’s useless. Things have become pretty much HOPELESS.

So if someone is telling you off, be glad because they still care (again, they might not be right all the time, but at least they still care).

Ahem, but please, if you are planning to tell someone off…….try to phrase it in the right way to make it sound constructive and not destructive. If you want to help the person, be constructive since it is easier for the person to absorb.

Hope it helps.

p/s… again, this lesson is something I’ve learnt from Prof Randy Pausch in his “Last Lecture”