How do you handle critics?

For the longest time, I was always afraid of taking criticism, and it was because of that fear that I always tried to be a perfectionist toward a lot of jobs in particular, so there would be nothing I could be criticized for.

Even times that I did get criticized I use to take it too seriously, and always thought that anytime I was criticized it was always thought it was was always based on the negative, never really fully understood that they were trying to incorporate some positive reinforcement into any criticism that they gave me.

I'm presently involved with a job in which the majority of the staff at this office tends to be criticized at least every second day. I take it with a grain of salt. I'll agree with everybody is that everybody needs negative criticism because it drives you to work harder. I also believe that negative criticism is always best if it is conditioned with some positivity, because it seems like a lot of people tend to take negative criticism the wrong way, and see it as a personal attack.

Any criticism that I receive while working as an environmental field inspector I try to take something good out of it, besides deep down they're only words even if they're used in a negative context.

Always remember that your never going to avoid criticism in any kind of work, you just have to make the most out of whatever criticism that is thrown your way. The worse thing you can do is let unwarranted praise give you a false sense of security especially in terms of your work, its better to hear the honest truth than a fabricated truth just to avoid getting your feelings hurt.

Jam it back in, in the dark.