 Throughout your career, you will always encounter critical feedback, and receiving feedback can be hard, but only you can draw the right conclusions to enhance your critical thinking skills. Remember, smart people with good intentions have considered your work. How does reading their thoughts make you feel? Here is how you can handle feedback. Take a breath. Give yourself time to process. Criticism is letting you know nothing is perfect and there is still work to do. Take it personally. It is neither an insult nor a reflection of who you are as a person. Remember the benefit. Are you ready to listen to critical feedback that you don't want to hear, but that you need to hear? Feedback is a gift. Learn to appreciate it. Listen for understanding. Enter a dialogue with yourself. What part of the feedback resonates with you? Don't allow yourself to become defensive. This only tells you that you're unreceptive. Open up. Be gracious. Please respond respectfully. If you took the time to assess your work and suggest improvements, hit the like button and comment where appropriate to react to your feedback. Evaluate carefully. Feedback allows you to monitor your performance. Neither fully reject nor automatically accept it. After reading your reviews, you decide what to accept and what to turn down. Draw your own informed conclusion. How can you get better? Look for opportunities to stop or start doing what was pointed out to you. Using feedback is a great opportunity to practice intellectual humility and become a better learner. And in the spirit of civil dialogue, always give back. Let reviewers know how useful, constructive, and justified their feedback was.