A study conducted by Wake Forest University has concluded that if you have a good concept of other people your happiness indicators will be very high and you will gather a series of values such as enthusiasm, nobility and you will be a person with a very balanced mind. It is a very logical conclusion since your predisposition to have a good esteem for others is an indicator that you are satisfied with your life.
By contrast, If you tend to criticize the people you associate with, your chances of being unhappy increase exponentially. In this case, people who criticize others are usually self-centered, bitter and often lead to depressive problems, neurotic disorders and other personality disorders.
According to this research, asking one person to evaluate another gives us information not only about the person evaluated but also about the evaluator himself, since projects your emotions onto others.
Stop criticizing others
I leave you 7 ideas that will help you stop criticizing others:
1) Cultivate the value of empathy: try to put yourself in the place of others, understand their points of view. No one really knows from the situations a person has to deal with in their day-to-day lives. Perhaps you are criticizing a person for their bad mood and you do not know that this person is taking care of their mother day and night because they have Alzheimer's.
2) Treat others as if they were your brothers.
3) Before criticizing someone, analyze how you are... surely you will find a defect.
4) It is better to remain silent than to criticize someone.
5) Focus your attention on the positive aspects of the person before in its negative aspects.
6) Do not do what you would not like to be done to you.
To finish, I leave you with a video that is a short monologue by a Spanish comedian and television presenter, Andreu Buenafuente, who tells us about this ugly habit, that of criticizing others: