After each work done, instead of hoping and waiting for people to praise your piece of work, ask them questions in a way that they can criticize it.

Something like, “What’s wrong with my work?”, “How do you think I can improve it?”, “What don’t you like about it?”.

If you’re looking to improve yourself, in every single thing that you do, praise can only bring you until a certain level. Criticism, on the other hand, can bring you much further. It makes you look for better improvement, encourages you to seek new ideas, pushes you to think outside of the box and it promotes initiative.

Of course you will need to filter out those criticism as there are good criticism and bad criticism. Only you can define it, within you own realm of perspectives, knowledge and wisdom. Be known that you can always accept the ones that you think is good i.e. constructive and reject the ones that brings you think is wrong i.e. thrown out of jealousy or ignorance.

Read: “It’s not how good you are, it’s how good you want to be” by Paul Arden.