Don’t feel bad if you have bad reviews. On the contrary!
I can understand that it may seem unpleasant, but if you learn to enjoy bad reviews, you are on your way to becoming a great professional.
Well, how can we do it?
1: Build a good predisposition
Be honest with yourself, understand that your work can be improved and open your arms to those improvements.
2: Cultivate the humility.
That is essential to learn and progress. If you think you are the smartest person in the world, you are wrong. There is always someone smarter than you. In fact, if you think like that, there will be hundreds of thousands of people smarter than you.
3: Discover your limits.
Be honest with your limitations and be clear that thanks to enjoying the bad reviews and learning from them, one day you may not have limits. Deep in our hearts, we all know what we do right and what we do wrong. It is key to understand this.
4: Expose your work to the great public.
Set-up feedback and survey tools, monitor user sessions and be brave. Repeat yourself that bad reviews will make you stronger. Because it is 100% true.
5: Separate constructive and destructive critics.
And learn from the first ones. Don't waste a single second or energy on second ones because it's not worth it.
6: Listen, learn and design.
Analyse the bad reviews and do act consequently. When you've solved them, you won’t receive those reviews again.
7: Celebrate every bad constructive review like you've won a trophy.
Because be sure you've won one and that will help you to enjoy this priceless process.
So, don’t be hard to yourself. All of us make mistakes on a daily basis. No one is perfect nowadays, but if you embrace your mistakes, you will not make them anymore. So you will be closer to perfection.
By the way, I strongly recommend to practice meditation. Meditation always help. Not only with this exercise, but in all aspects of your life. A great app for beginners is headspace. Meditation, like everything in life, can be trained. You only need 10 minutes/day to improve, so be patient and work on it. It will change your life.
Listen to your users and have fun!
Thanks for reading!