World, Writing, Wealth discussion

Wiki defines it as a negative personality trait: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-cr...
However, it has practical meaning, especially in indie art, where an artist/author has to apply his/her internal barometer before releasing his/her masterpiece to the public.
If narcissism, as the opposite side of the scale, is annoying/negative, about self-criticism (unless it results in total absence of self-confidence) I'm not so sure.
What do you think?

Self-criticism doesn't seem to me to yield positive results unless you display it to get some pity attention and use that for gain. In thinking about people who have done great things - Einstein, Curie, Meade, Hawking, Pollock, Salinger, Reagan, and others of their ilk - I'm not sure they spent a lot of time on self-criticism.

Scout wrote: "In thinking about people who have done great things - Einstein, Curie, Meade, Hawking, Pollock, Salinger, Reagan, and others of their ilk - I'm not sure they spent a lot of time on self-criticism..."

Don't know how self-critical they were, but being outstanding or genius doesn't necessarily mean being time-effective and dedicate every free minute to doing something grandiose. No matter who -
presidents, dictators, scientists, billionaires and so on (with very few exceptions) spend a lot of time on very mundane or even silly things -:) All regular people, more than anything else.

Self (constructive) Criticism vs Self (destructive) Criticism are two entirely different things with very different outcomes for their practitioners.

Nik wrote: "Scout wrote: "In thinking about people who have done great things - Einstein, Curie, Meade, Hawking, Pollock, Salinger, Reagan, and others of their ilk - I'm not sure they spent a lot of time on se..."

Just responded to the title of the thread about self-criticism. Wasn't suggesting that they weren't "regular people." Just that they couldn't have accomplished what they did if they'd spent a lot of time criticizing themselves. I think a common denominator of great people is that they have a strong belief in themselves and persevere even when others doubt them.

I wish I could be so sure of myself.