bryanmaloney wrote:
Work the pure logic mojo.
When you receive feedback, break it down, point by point, into separate lines. Examine them from a purely factual basis. Respond to them on a purely factual basis. The client is paying you. Thus, your life depends upon the quality of your work as evaluated by the client. Your emotions are irrelevant. Throw them away. If you can't live under that, learn to or starve. It's that simple, that factual, that logical.
I have had dozens of papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. I don't give a personal tinker's damn about the critiques. They are merely factual matters that need to be addressed as such. I save emotions for people who matter, not for clients or reviewers.
Awesome advice for
anyone. Accepting criticism isn't just a problem for AS--it's a pretty hard thing for everyone, and it's one of the more difficult things to learn to deal with when a person enters a team-based workforce.
NT's generally attempt to make it more palatable by moderating tone of voice, word choice, and body language to convey the positive intent behind their words. If you have a hard time picking up on this stuff, or if it just doesn't matter how it's presented, I'd swing the opposite direction and look at it from that purely logical angle.