When someone criticizes your work, look for the one true sentence in it. There’s almost always one.

Criticism usually arrives badly wrapped, in the wrong tone or at the wrong moment. That makes it easy to reject the whole thing and lose the useful part. Almost every piece of it contains one accurate line, even when the rest is unfair. Finding that line is a skill, and it is the difference between getting better and getting defensive.

Next time feedback stings, wait a day and read it again with one job: find the true sentence. Take that one and let the rest go without arguing it.