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Originally Posted by Eweser
I don't take criticism well. I'm actually better than I used to be. Growing up, it seemed like criticism was given to me as an attack. It's taken me a long time to realize that criticism may be helpful and doesn't mean that what I'm working on is junk/stupid/wrong, it just might need a little fixing here and there.
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It sounds like you strongly believe in the notion of perfection. A proverb that I learned when I was young is that "perfection is a road, not a destination." It has been very influential for me. I take it to mean that, no matter how good we think something is, it can always be made better. In other words, "there's always room for improvement." If you think of things this way, whenever anyone criticizes something of yours, it obviously doesn't mean that it is junk/stupid/wrong. It only means that it can be improved upon and, since this is always true, it is never insulting...