Which one do you make more, compliments or criticism?
A research team at Duke University in the United States revealed that the human brain treats compliments and criticism in different ways in different parts. Negative things like criticism are handled in the amygdala in charge of emotions, whereas positive things like compliments are processed in a more logical approach without stimulating the amygdala. For this reason, people tend to judge others’ good behavior to be coincidental, but react emotionally at a negative behavior, regarding it as what they meant to do it.
However, if you want to be happy, you should be accustomed to complimenting than criticizing. The person who refrains himself from criticizing and compliments often can make himself happy as well as people around him, more than the person who often criticizes and is stingy with compliments.
In order to be generous with compliments, why don’t we think of the opposite way of how the brain works? It is to regard negative behaviors of others as coincidence or mistake, and consider their good deeds as the result of their altruistic mind and consideration. Compliments and criticism depend on what kind of mindset we view things with.