Craig Ruvere

“Through practice, gently and gradually we can collect ourselves and learn how to be more fully with what we do.” - Jack Kornfield How does one become a better writer, teacher, programmer, leader? With practice. How does a toddler go from crawling on their hands and knees to walking on their two feet? With practice. How does a parent learn to be a better parent and a spouse learn to be a better spouse? You guessed it – with practice. The list is truly endless but this fact is unavoidable – if you practice anything repetitively (especially when you’re a novice) your goals are more attainable. Arrogance, however, is a roadblock you continue to swerve around, but refuse to acknowledge. I recently identified a video project within my company, and…

“Value those who give you constructive criticism, because without them doing so, you will never reach the peak of what you are do.” – Unarine Ramaru Recently, while conducting some research on the art of constructive criticism, it became clear fairly quickly that many experts, leaders, teachers, parents and even me are divided on its benefits. In short, constructive criticism is supposed to help improve a person, a project, an initiative, a circumstance, you name it. And in some cases, I suppose it does. But we’re all human, and when there are people involved you can bet that their emotions will soon follow. Natural emotions that our body triggers as soon as we sense that some part of who we are is being challenged. That brings about a certain level…