hard to praise things well

In this day it's difficult to praise something the way it truely deserves. You can never tell when somebody is actually prasing your work, or just being nice. In turn, that makes it hard to take a compliment truely to heart. Even if somebody is honestly praising work, it's not always accurate. It takes an educated person to be able to praise something, becuase you have to be able to compare it to something. If an uneducated person tries to desribe why a piece of pie is good, without having tried other pieces of pie of the same kind, but from a different pie, they wouldn't truely be able to praise the pie. Most of the time work that is praised is poorly praised, and doesn't get the attention it deserved in the first place.