Whether you're in Employment or Education, you leave yourself open to negative feedback and suppose constructive criticism, do you happened it well, take it on the chin and work to improve? Or do you take it as an attack on you, and get disheartened?
I've never been very good with authority figures, especially when I feel I haven't done anything wrong, but supposedly by unwritten rules it's taboo to defend yourselves. It got to the point when I was in high school, I was very close to be expelled.
More recently I've got a lot better with taking negative feedback, especially in the work environment because unless you want to be unemployed you have to take the negatives with the positives.
What about you?