It's Not For You

A person walks past a store, examines it, and says, "This store is stupid. Who would go there?"
As they walk past, a group of people decide to go in. What must they think to themselves?! The people in there must also be stupid! (This is as creative as my writing gets!!)

When we innovate and get creative, either by opening a store, writing a book, composing music, drawing a piece of art, etc. there will always be people who will disagree with you, who are not impressed with you, or even go out of their way to criticise you.

If you ever feel like that last person mentioned, then perhaps instead of criticising it, just say, maybe it's not for me, but other people like it.

For example, looking from the artist's perspective, why would an author look into negative reviews/ratings of their books? It's not like they're going to re-write it after seeing the bad review amongst many other ones. If you saw a 1* review of 'How to Kill a Mockingbird' or 'Harry Potter', would that really change the way you feel about those books.

Or if you saw a terrible review about your favourite restaurant, would that also change your perception of it?

It is impossible to please everyone, and not everyone is the same or feels the same way about everything.

Don't let other people's personal opinions affect or diminish your preferences and individual tastes, and similarly, don't let yours attempt to diminish that of someone else's, especially if you know their viewpoint.

If they like something, and you really don't, just accept that maybe it's not for you, and that's okay.