Only pay attention to feedback from those who have similar goals or who are working actively alongside you to achieve goals of their own.
It has been said that failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker.
Contemporary psychologists agree that setbacks and failures mean little or nothing in themselves. The whole meaning of any setback—or any success, for that matter—is in how we take it and what we make of it.
Rather than have others steal your dreams by raining on them, ask questions and find out about their dreams before you launch into your sermon.