How do you handle negative feedback?

[april]

In school I ignored all negative feedback, whether it be towards me or my work but when I got to college I realized that was the wrong thing to do. Now I listen to and improve on negative feedback and it's worked pretty well so far. I still ignore the jackasses who just do it for fun though.

[Alexx..]

If constructive, and I know that I can improve I can take it, but if they're just giving me negative feedback for the heck of it well I don't like it and tend to argue.

[Cosmic]

If I get negative feedback on an assignment (be it an essay or something creative), I try to take it on board and use it to help improve my piece of work. Obviously it can sometimes be difficult not to let it get to me, especially if I feel as though I tried my best.

[beth]

i consider myself very honest, and so when i know i've done something wrong/badly i'm pretty honest with myself about that so if i consider the negative criticism correct, then i take it fine. when i don't agree, and i have valid points on disagreeing i will just disregard it. it also depends on who's giving the criticism. especially with my lecturers at uni because some of them are simply awful at their jobs, and their criticism is often ignored ha!

[Rozi]

Don't you dare ever say I'm wrong because I'm always right and what ever you say to contradict me is wrong, and you're a ****.

That about sums it up, except when I'm feeling in a rational mood. Generally I'm quite good at seeing both sides of an argument but find it difficult to deal well with criticism, unless its for like an essay or something.

[luce]

it spurs me on to do better i think because in my year 10 mocks i did badly and my teacher slated me and since then i have never ever had one B in anything i'm straight A*-A and i'm not in year 12. So yeah i handle it well not that i get it too much now. However i do always try my hardest so if i did do badly you know it was the best you could have done.

[FlyingJesus]

I do not get negative feedback and therefore cannot answer as to how I might handle such a situation

[Andy-]

I'm in school now and when i'm getting negative feedback from a teacher I normally take it unless I know i;m not wrong then I answer back and then we start to argue then I normally get sent out. That's only with one teacher my science teacher. I normally just take it and just not listen to them for the rest of the lesson.

[Michael]

Negative constructive feedback is fine as long as it is balanced with positive feedback as well. It can be very demoralising when one works very hard, produces good results and it is only the mistakes that are picked up and dealt with.

Agree with this. Negative without positive doesn't really help!

[Sian]

if it's constructive I'll be happy for people to tell me but if you tell me a load of stupid criticisms that I can't even really help (like my handwriting is bad) then I may flip.