i learned to take criticism seriously, but not personally. Your critics can teach you things that your friends either won't or don't know to. You have to be careful about where the criticism is coming from because a lot of times it's not well intentioned at all. But you do have to at least understand and try to figure out how best to deal with it. i really believe that because i was the president's wife, it was hard for a lot of people to accept the a plan for what it was. And if i had known that going in, i still would have worked really hard on it, but i would have headed it,. somebody else would have been the face of