When considering sources of feedback give priority to your intuition, not the person's position or wealth. Receive feedback from people you trust and always decide yourself.
Feedback is a part of a manager's job
Even if it is sometimes painful, managers with their feedback help employees more than anyone else. However, they should follow the rule to praise in public but criticize in private.
Ignoring feedback hurts yourself
Both praise and criticism is very valuable information and if you avoid it, you are making a mistake. You stagnate, do not improve and do not grow.
Your problem with criticism is mostly a problem of you ego
Criticism may be deserved but also undeserved. You are a free man, and it's up to you how to deal with criticism. The problem with receiving criticism is mostly not related to its content, but to the ego of the person being criticized.
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