Being able to look at your own code and notice what's wrong with it is the first step. There are always at least trade-offs made between conflicting quality go

Being able to look at your own code and notice what's wrong with it is the first step. There are always at least trade-offs made between conflicting quality goals. Understand that others will value trade-offs differently. In a team, their preferences count as much as yours. You wrote the code, but it is not you. Critique of the code is not critique of you.