If they don’t care about you, they haven’t earned the right for you to care about their reactions. If they’re not qualified to judge the task or close enough to know your potential, you can discount their views and prove them wrong. But if they’ve demonstrated that you matter to them and they know the domain and your skills, they’re offering information to improve yourself. That doesn’t mean you have to accept every bit of constructive criticism they give. You also don’t have to agree with it to learn from it. By trying to understand what provoked their reactions, you can glean insights about
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