It depends on the way someone criticizes you. Thinking that most of the criticism is given in moments of stress, I think it’s become very difficult to accept them without feeling bad just a little bit, but I think it’s worth to cool down, to think about the criticism and to extract the best of this.
I believe that it’s better to accept the critic instead of being on the defensive, after all, we are human, and we’ll make mistakes all our life, and we’ll receive critics even after getting old. Life gets easier when we accept the criticism and become better people.