Earlier this month, I happened across an article on CNBC describing how Julia Roberts learned to handle career criticism.

The subject immediately interested me. On one hand, it felt strange that one of the most successful movie stars on the planet would have been dogged by criticism. On the other hand, it's not at all surprising that a sensitive young woman in a very tough business would encounter emotional challenges she had to learn to cope with.

Being insecure, as Roberts described herself early in her career, criticism could be "crippling" to her. 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........

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