Human communication is a conduit to criticism. This is an area of great interest to me.

Throughout my life, criticism produced psychological discomfort (often referred to as growing pains).

In some cases, the criticism allowed me to grow; in others, the criticism compelled me to obsess & wilt.

So much of my childhood was spent trying to avoid criticism, when so much of it should have been seeking it out by trying new things, & learning to separate the substance from the nonsense.

In your response to the question above, please include why/how a particular piece of criticism mattered to your development as a human.