How do you guys deal with criticism?

Hey all, I have a question to you all as to how to handle criticism. I work in a company and the dev team is relatively small (circa 12) and one of the senior devs, who is very knowlegeable is also very critical. He will openly says stuff like "this code is crap", "this makes no sense", "are you not paying attention", etc. He likes to point fingers, is very very critical and sometimes plain rude. He is actually a nice person in general, and also knows a heck of a lot, as hes been in the field for good 13 years in the same company. I try to not take things personally and know somehow this is just his personality. But when you spend time doing something and presenting it to the group and he says in front of everyone that your idea makes no sense at all, this can be very discouraging and it boosts the impostor syndrom. I wonder how other people cope with this situation, in case they do face it... Any inputs are welcome :)

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