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How to Handle Criticism and Rejection

August 6, 2018

by Donna L.H. Smith Your boss criticizes your work. Your teacher gives you a bad grade. Not only do you not place in a contest, you get stinging comments from a judge. As a writer, I’m regularly critiqued, edited, and otherwise told to change my text. It can get downright discouraging if I don’t have the proper attitude. I was adopted, and I have the personality type that is affected by reject…