Giving and taking criticism is a very hard thing to learn. The attempt always, is to give it and take it as constructively as possible. But it’s not easy.

In regard to receiving it, we do our best and try to encourage it and take whatever is heading in our direction, and then feed it into our future actions and directions. Or sometimes, if it is of the destructive kind, simply ignore it. But that kind is a lot less common than we perhaps like to think. There is always something we can get from almost any kind of criticism.

However, there is an important action we can take on our part, however any of that goes.

We simply do it again. That thing we did.

Regardless of how much or little we consciously take from the various forms of feedback we receive, the simple act of

-Writing another song.
-Running another race.
-Standing on another stage.
-Hosting another event.

Whatever it might be, putting our heart into carrying on doing that thing, will make us consistently better at Doing That Thing.

I’m sure I’m preaching to the converted though…