On Thursday evenings Andrew and I lead a small group for people who've recently graduated from uni, and in the last few weeks we've been learning from the Bible about work together. The last two weeks we've been looking at Proverbs about the world of work together. Here's a Proverb that got us talking:
“It’s no good, it’s no good!” says the buyer— then goes off and boasts about the purchase. (Proverbs 20:14)
This is no moral guideline for living, rather an astute observation about how the world of buying and selling works. The application for a person in retail business is obvious - don't be duped into reducing a price because of unreasonable complaints. I think that for the rest of us it's a warning about considering and weighing up the negative feedback that others give us. How serious are they? Realistically speaking, how much of a problem is it? Are they playing us for more than they can reasonably expect?
There are plenty of balancing Proverbs that warn us to listen to advice and feedback so this can't be telling us to just ignore any and every negative evaluation. Just give some thought to the motivations of the evaluator.
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