It doesn't matter if you are a promoter, a wrestler, or even the camera guy, you need to be able to take the criticism either way. There are people who are in charge that know what they want from you, so do what they tell you to. There are people in the business who have been doing it a hell of a lot longer than you have, so take their advice on things and make yourself better.
I cannot stand it when someone asks me what I thought of their match, then they get pissed off because I tell them the truth. It's the same shit that everyone else is thinking, it's just no one else has the balls (no pun intended) to say something. Don't ask me if you don't want to hear the truth. If I tell you that your match was okay when it really sucked ass, that is doing nothing for you then. That just makes you think that whatever you just did out there was good and that you know what you are doing, when really, you have no idea what you are doing at all.
This is how you learn in this business. Be humble, ask advice, take it like a man and make yourself better. I cannot tell you how many times people ripped me up one end and down the other about stuff. But the fact that I always took the criticism and that person's advice, made that person respect me a little more or at least see me as a little more of an equal, rather than a dumb kid.
If you sit there while someone is giving you advice and act like an asshole about it, then that person now thinks you are an asshole. They will tell the promoter, you probably will not come back there again, and now you are labeled as an asshole overall. Good job, way to get yourself blackballed.
The point is, telling somebody something just to make them feel better is not going to do shit. Tell them the truth so that they learn from their mistakes. And if you are the one asking for advice, take it like a man and actually learn from it.
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