I’d like to think I can take criticism well.  In my head, I understand where it is coming from for most people and that it isn’t, in most cases, a direct attack on you as a person.

When it comes down to it, though, I find that I can’t take criticism well at all.  Despite my “understanding” of it conceptually, there’s this emotional reaction that overwhelms me.  As a result I get nervous, anxious, and start to exhibit physical reactions such as sweating and nervous tapping.  The sad part of this is that I was not always this way.  I guess somewhere along the line I just became a little sissy and became incapable of handling this kind of stuff.

Within time I think I can get better.  The more this happens, the more used to it I will get. Its like women and rejection.  You fear rejection so much at first, but after it happens enough, it just bounces right off of you.  I need to be rejected more.  And maybe that’s my problem.  In all this time of being super-awesome, someone finally found a chink in my armor and I’m not familiar enough with that experience to be able to take it like strong black night. “Tis but a scratch!”