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Matthew McConaughey has an Oscar, an estimated $200 million net worth and a hefty catalog of 20 years\u2019 worth of reviews\u2014good and bad. Despite his clear career success, he collated all the worst things ever written about him, went to the desert for a weekend, and read every one.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI took them on as a thick book\u2026 not all the positive, the negative ones\u2014and I sat with them,\u201d McConaughey said in a recent interview with Build or Break<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all I took, and I spent two days looking at them, and it was hard.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

And he learned from the tough experience that there are two kinds of critics\u2014and only one is worth listening to.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of the reviews, what I learned is that, from the very first sentence, this person has it out for me. It didn\u2019t matter if they saw the movie or not. They just don\u2019t like me. They were going to write a negative review,\u201d McConaughey explained.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Not every bad review was out to get him, though. Some were still critical, but actually useful.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018This person got a point.\u2019 They\u2019re actually a fan of mine, and they didn\u2019t get from my performance what I was actually hoping they would\u2019ve got. Where did I fail in achievement?\u201d That he says is constructive criticism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThey were looking at the work and objectively criticizing it. Applauded some things, but also applauded some things that shined a light on where I came up short.\u201d<\/p>\n

His next question was simple: What can I learn from that?<\/p>\n

\u201cSome are going to write bad about you or wish you the worst no matter what, because they just don\u2019t like you from afar, don\u2019t like your success or what have you,\u201d he added. \u201cSome are really good critics or write constructively about what you did wrong\u2014and you can learn from it.\u201d<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s a lesson you can carry into every discipline. No matter how good you are, there\u2019s always room to learn more. But first, you have to separate the feedback that\u2019s real from the noise.<\/p>\n

Taking criticism is even now a job interview test\u2014and one CEO says candidates who \u2018get offended\u2019 aren\u2019t a fit<\/h2>\n

McConaughey\u2019s team told Fortune<\/em> the trip to the West Texas desert near Marfa came around 2018 or 2019, while he was writing Greenlights<\/em>. By then, he\u2019d been in the business for more than two decades, since his 1993 breakout in Dazed and Confused<\/em>, with major hits like Interstellar<\/em> and True Detective<\/em> already behind him.<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s hardly the only big name who keeps taking feedback on board.<\/p>\n

Ozark<\/em> actor Jason Bateman said in an interview with Esquire<\/em> last year that he also reads all the reviews for his television shows and movies because they shape how he shows up for the people on the other side of the silver screen who are paying to see him play.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am doing these projects for public consumption, so it matters to me what the public thinks about them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

And at the top of the business world, there\u2019s no resting on your laurels either.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite growing a $5.5 trillion company from the ground up, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is still hard on himself. After more than 3 decades of climbing to the top, he still works seven days a week and says he\u2019s \u201calways in a state of anxiety\u201d that Nvidia could go under. \u201cNobody suffers better than I can,\u201d Huang recently said in conversation with the Korea Society. \u201cIn order to do something incredible, you have to suffer. It\u2019s not a walk in the park. If it\u2019s a walk in the park, anybody could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He\u2019s even admitted he\u2019s \u201cstill working on being a good CEO.\u201d<\/p>\n

And he\u2019s no softer on his staff. The billionaire boss says he criticizes everything they show him. \u201cYou can\u2019t show me something without me giving you some criticism,\u201d he told CNA.<\/p>\n

Huang said he believes feedback works best when delivered immediately, and with improvement (not punishment) in mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust like a Taiwanese parent, once the feedback is given, you\u2019re back to loving the person again,\u201d Huang said. \u201cAnd so, I\u2019m always critical of everybody\u2019s work so that I can help them be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ralph Lauren CEO Patrice Louvet doesn\u2019t believe in sugar-coating feedback either. \u201cSometimes people need to be hit by a 2\u00d74 across the forehead, because it doesn\u2019t always register right,\u201d he told LinkedIn\u2019s This is Working<\/em> podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The French-born Fortune 500 exec said that addressing weaknesses sooner rather than later can help businesses\u2014and careers\u2014thrive.<\/p>\n

One CEO thinks the ability to take feedback on board is so important that he\u2019s testing for it in the interview room.<\/p>\n

Gagan Biyani, the CEO of the education platform Maven and a cofounder of Udemy, has started giving candidates critiques live in the interview, sometimes in front of a full panel. He calls it the \u201cmost telling part\u201d of the process, and it\u2019s often what decides whether they get the job.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is their nightmare, [the] candidate freezes up or even gets offended,\u201d Biyani added it highlights straight away that they are \u2018not a fit\u2019 for the company. \u201cIf this is exciting, they are more likely to join.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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