How do you take other people’s criticism?

Question: How do you take other people's criticism?
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Asked by Beki & Eliza to Huma, Jack, Lucy, Miranda, Peter on 7 Nov 2016.
- Huma Shah answered on 7 Nov 2016:
  
  Hi Beki and Eliza,
  
  You have to take it as learning and also accept not everyone likes what you’re doing and thinks they have a better way. As scientists we’ll receive criticism all the time, for example face-to-face at conferences and on our written articles on our experiments and method.
  
  Indeed physicist and author of ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ Simon Singh complained about my 2014 Turing test experiment to the Vice Chancellor of Reading University, because he didn’t like how the findings were reported (not by me) by the university. I had to answer the criticism and Simon Singh put the correspondence on his blog, you can read it here:
  
  http://www.simonsingh.net/Simpsons_Mathematics/university-of-reading-stands-by-its-appalling-turing-test-press-release/
  
  Take criticism as learning and then this will help you to improve and become a better scientist, because good criticism will show you things that you didn’t think of, and see angles you hadn’t considered.
  
  Huma
- Peter Boorman answered on 7 Nov 2016:
  
  Hi Beki & Eliza,
  
  A main aim of scientific research is to understand something the ‘correct’ way. If anyone ever has criticism on a particular area of research or anything in general, this isn’t a bad thing. This just shows there may potentially be a better way to do something, and, if that’s true, the key thing (in my opinion) is to take the ideas onboard and figure out the best way to do something. In this way, we can make important improvements on things!
  
  Peter

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