Dean Esmay asks a question that prompts me to wonder: is it more important that strangers praise your accomplishments, or that your intimates love and respect you?
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Well, I would s ay it's more important to someone to feel that his or her intimates love and respect him or her. I would say it's more important to others for strangers to respect your work because others form opinions based on your reputation, while you will form opinions about yourself based on how the people in your life treat you.
Obviously it depends on who you are! Plus how crazy you are. I'm not going to say which one is sane and which one is crazy. Probably cultural anyway.
when it comes down to it, you are really the only person whose praise you should seek...
but i have to say that in terms of value, the approval of someone who knows you in and out should always be worth more than the praise of those who don't have any idea what really goes into you or went into your work. so, scientifically, it's bigger praise!
that's my two cents on it.
Ah, but to play Devil's advocate, it's easy to be nice and congenial, and accomplish nothing in life.