"It threw her off. "If someone embarrassed me, it stopped me," she said. "I was apoplectic." But Roberts also intuitively realized that Hollywood was "not an industry to be in if you can't take criticism." She made a conscious, thoughtful decision. Instead of being upset by criticism, she became determined to look at it as an "interesting challenge for me to decide the kind of person I wanted to strive to be.""
"My manager was a no-nonsense, self-made executive whom I greatly respected. When we discussed my future, as I recounted in The Type B Manager, she admitted I'd done solid work, but added: "I just don't know about you. I can't quite put my finger on it," she said, "but you don't seem like a manager. You just don't seem like executive material.""
Julia Roberts experienced crippling insecurity early in her career, and embarrassment from criticism often stopped her and left her feeling apoplectic. She recognized that Hollywood requires the ability to take criticism and chose to respond differently. Roberts reframed criticism as an interesting challenge and used it to shape the person she wanted to become. A separate workplace example describes a manager who acknowledged solid work but doubted managerial potential, telling an employee they did not seem like executive material. Resilience and non-defensive reflection on criticism can help individuals learn, adapt, and advance in their careers.
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