Acceptance to Criticism

The degree of accepting criticism is declining with the growing age/seniority and this is the key barrier to self-improvement.

By analysing myself, I believe this symptom may be caused by the following reasons:

1. Stubbornness - the older a person, the more experienced he/she is and so the stronger the will.
2. Power blinds people - an unfortunate human nature.
3. Self-esteem - another unfortunate human nature.

Most people know that "open-mindedness is a virtue to continuous improvement. But this doesn't mean one can be "open-minded" easily.

LATE NOTE:
Just found a good example to reveal the challenge of "acceptance to criticism". One of the recent hot news in Hong Kong about the sex-related pages in the student newspaper (Student Press, CUHKSU) of Chinese University of Hong Kong demonstrates how difficult for people to listen and to accept criticism, regardless of ages.