I suppose everybody has a technique for processing reviews. I skim them, try to put them out of mind (though of course this requires mental discipline that not even the Zen masters possess), then return to them a few weeks later. That's when I try to sort out, in as cool a state as possible, what seems valid and what seems like gibberish. Honest, helpful criticism, packaged in such a way that you can accept it and learn something from it, is probably one of the higher art forms. Which is to say, I wouldn't expect to stub my toes on it every day.
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