The author supports the idea that criticism is sometimes best ignored because people that have faced criticism for their ideas or actions succeeded even by disregarding the negative feedback. could be right and people will regret criticizing you in the first place because people's thoughts are not always right and most of the time end up swallowing back their word after word, because they don't know what your thoughts are and what great idea that you have, so it is better to ignore them.
In the article, farmer Yacouba Sawadogo is being judged by the others but Yacouna ignored them and kept doing what he was doing and ended up saving their homes from desertification.