Recently a few people have told me about their experience of what we called “a backhand compliment”. In my own words, it means an apparent compliment with a subtle negative connotation/meaning behind it. Take an extreme example, someone “compliments” an American saying “your English is as good as the English.”
Well, my advice:
1) Take a compliment as its face value first. Every compliment has an element of praise and goodness.
2) Don’t over analyze it. It is not good for your soul to dwell on it. Moving on.
3) Say thank you to the giver of compliment as he/she made the effort to offer it to you.
4) Finally, yes-you deserve the compliment.
The more the merrier 🙂