These are excerpts from the author’s book “Deep,” which contains eight of his small books published in the form of Wisdom Literature covering different aspects of life: Facing troublemakers, dealing with pain, personal financial issues, gastronomy, reading, criticizing, inspiring, and feeling always good to go.

Series 6: Criticizing.

Criticizing Outside Your Field of Expertise

• Criticizing within your field of expertise is usual. Your interest in criticizing outside your field of expertise is often indicative of a sublime culture and delicate critical sense. Make sure that you practice criticizing outside your field of expertise calmly, objectively, and with pleasure. Allow it to give you a deep confidence you deserve.

• Your field of expertise or specialization is not just an academic certification or officially approved experience certificate. If you are very interested in a field outside your specialization in which your criticisms are of a high and prolific level, that field automatically becomes your field, even if you lack official credentials.

• Your criticism outside your field of expertise may be in the form of a question, but the question should be “how is it?” rather than “what is it?”

• We care about any field as much as we deal with it. We are not all doctors, but we all get sick and take medicine and treatment, to one degree or another. It is not logical to go through these experiences without having a comment related to medicine, not just the experience of having the disease.

• We are not all chefs, and many do not even know how to cook one dish, but we all eat and judge what we eat. Only a few, however, go beyond the judgment of “good” or “bad” to indicate genuinely why the food was good or bad. Those are the true critics, even if their comments are brief.

• Any field becomes your field of expertise, to one degree or another, as much as you go through special experiences—within that field—that refine you, and you comment inspirationally on these experiences.

• Evaluate the criticisms you receive in your field of specialization from others outside the field with the same openness that you comment in areas outside your field.

• The best person to inspire you in criticism outside your field of expertise is you, during the early stages of your life before you specialize in any field.

• Being open to criticism outside your field of expertise makes you more prepared to accept any change in the field of work that life circumstances impose upon you.

• Never hesitate to comment and criticize in areas far from your expertise, as long as you feel strongly about doing so. Do not look at your contributions as an intrusion in those areas but rather as an enrichment for them.