If you’re going to get big, you’re going to have to learn to deal with it.
That’s the advice many of us receive when we take those first tentative steps to get our work into the world in a much bigger way.
The bigger you get, the more you’ll be criticized or just have nasty things said about you (or even to you — anonymously online of course). So, chalk it up to jealously and move on.
Now, full disclosure, I also believed this sage advice…until a couple of weeks ago.