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In our lives we have had various people call us out, might be a friend, a colleague, relative, pastors, mentors or even strangers in order to correct us. Most of them have corrected us in a way that we react positively to it and most of them have also corrected us in a way that we react negatively to the corrections.
Most parents or elders have taken to correcting young ones in a more displeasing way and thereby making the young one react negatively to it. I think it is a good thing for one to be called out to be corrected but i also think that there are right approaches to correcting someone and the person doesn't feel offended instead he or she takes correction.
Correcting should come in a good way of approach especially while correcting young adults if you want them to adhere to the correction. Inasmuch as correcting is a way of guiding someone from trading the wrong path or from learning to do the right thing.
I have been called out several times by my mentor who happens to always correct me when I do something wrong. Last year I actually ventured into a business I had little or no idea about. I made a lot of mistakes in the course of the business and I lost a lot of money. So one day he called me and corrected me.
First, he congratulated me for even coming up with a plan on establishing myself and even being able to save up and start up a business was one thing he applauded me for. After that was when he began to correct me on the things I did not do right, telling me the things I should have done that I did not do. Like I should have first sat down to learn about the business, count the cost before embarking into a business I didn't really have an idea about. A reasonable person in this way of correction would learn so many things without reacting negatively to it.
Looking at it in the negative aspect, if he had called me out to condemn my little effort without commending me, I probably would not have learnt any other thing because I would have reacted negatively and probably I would have left him. But he actually corrected me with Love by commending the little effort and also telling me the things if i had done would have been better. That was really a very nice way of correcting and in the cause of that correction I learnt and I can say I can carefully initiate another business successfully without making another mistake again.
So there are actually right ways of approach to correcting someone and you end up impacting the life of a person and there is a way you correct someone and you end up losing your respect due to the approach you used while correcting someone.
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