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From your previous comments about Linux and hacker news and other technical matters, I assumed you are a software engineer!
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For most of my professional life I was a sysadmin, hence the linux + a smattering of programming.
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Oh I love the phrase beginner’s mind n will be sure to remember it.
I think the challenge lies in that by volunteering to share, I m already presenting myself to be an expert (even though I’m still a novice at using Zoom haha), so I think balancing this dichotomy between expert persona n beginner’s mind will involve a lot of context switching
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So much of how you handle feedback is related to "how much of an expert do you perceive yourself to be"
For example. Even though I dabble in programming, and can hack my way around most typical jobs, I do not consider myself a programmer. Or to say it another way: I consider myself a fairly average/poor programmer.
Thus, when I receive criticism on code I've written, I'm generally thankful and I study what they've pointed out to make my code better.
Likewise, with Chess, I don't view myself as really that good....so corrections and feedback doesn't really affect me emotionally.
However, there may be other topics that I consider myself to be competent/proficient , where I may bristle at criticism.
Thats why its important to try to maintain a "beginners mind" about such things.