I have very little interest in getting criticism. In my working life I have been relentlessly criticised by customers, endless little digs about how my work quality supposedly disappoints expectations. Like 10 times a day customers are telling me how dissatisfied they are by my hard work. Why don't they piss off? Someone is always ready to tell you how they think you can improve, but really they don't have a clue, it just makes them feel competent and wise to dish out some fucking advice.
I think self improvement is a commercial scam. It's made to sell more stuff that people don't need that will supposedly make them a better person. It's built into the performance review process, it oils the wheels of the commercial machinery and makes it seem like there is some benefit to getting flogged by rich people over trying to achieve higher sales figures for them. There's a sort of religion to self improvement, and I'm not a religious person, I'm atheist.
I'm not on a self-improvement checklist program. I'm on a "journey" with events that enrich me and make me bigger. I know the word "journey" kind of sucks, but it's better than a self improvement checklist. My life journey doesn't make me more perfect, or more improved, or less flawed for punishing myself about my inadequacies... it makes me more vast. So I can't be bothered listening to criticism from others. Go away and live your own fucking life, and let me live my life in peace.
Let me put it this way... for me, accepting criticism is all a game. I have to get paid, so I'm willing to play the game. I can take direction and get things done according to direction, I have learned to do that well. But as soon as I walk out the door, I will immediately forget about it all and get back to things that I'm more interested in.