How do you handle critics?

Insofar as unsolicited criticism: I immediately stop to wonder what the critic's motivation was for offering it. If they strike me as a troll, I may briefly consider whether or not there is something valid to what they said, but won't take it seriously.

I do have a hard time with people giving me serious criticism. It's not that I don't recognize how valuable it can be, it's just that my gut reaction is to take it as a personal attack: even though I *know* that probably isn't the case. For me, the hard (and important) thing to do is to separate criticism of my work/schoolwork from criticism of me as a person. With the former you need to consider what pretty much everyone says. With the latter you can only ever trust a very few people to know what they're talking about.

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