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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Criticism is the heart of love, and maybe she was blunt and maybe out of line, and maybe was trying to make sure you had thought of xyz, and maybe she could have phrased things less presumptively, but maybe you also are reacting this way because she hit on weaknesses that you can't answer and if you dig into that, maybe you need to recognize her intent to try to help, however poorly she deployed it...[/quote]

Op here. This wasn’t loving or helpful criticism. Part of why it annoyed me so much is that it was rooted in a bunch of incorrect assumptions on her part and she wouldn’t let me talk because she was ranting at me.

She once had a bad experience many years ago with a company that she thinks is doing the same thing my project/side hustle would be doing. They are not at all the same, but she didn’t listen long enough to even understand what I’m doing before she decided it was the same as this one company she had a bad experience with 5+ years ago. So she’s viewing it through that lens, and keeps wanting to talk about her bad experience from before. My project is tech/AI/cybersecurity based and the stuff we are doing was impossible even 6 months ago, so it truly has NOTHING to do with her experience with a completely different company from 5 years ago.

She also claimed that I am “not truly passionate” about this project and that it “will never work unless my whole heart is in it”.

She had a bunch of other commentary and reasons why it will never work but a lot of her comments were centered on the two points above.

She listed all these things that we haven’t figured out (except, she doesn’t know what we are doing or whether we have figured them because she wasn’t listening to me). She claimed the idea is confusing to her and therefore can’t work (she doesn’t work in our industry and she’s not our target audience and didn’t take even 5 minutes to let me explain how it would work).[/quote]

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