Feedback Strategies

Feedback Strategies

After reading about how to accept feedback last week, it helps to see that a majority of the feedback in this course is from peer reviews. That being said, I should probably get better at providing feedback to others as well as how I receive it. After reading Six Tips for Providing Constructive Feedback and The Difference Between Praise and Feedback, I feel a bit more confident in my ability to give feedback. My fear is that I don't want to hurt someone or cause them to lose their creativity because it feels like it's been challenged or judged. Good feedback is feedback that you can tell is given because that individual wants to help better you and place you in the right direction. Strategies that I liked after reading the suggested methods from last semester were the ones that involve asking questions and providing suggestive solutions to those questions. I like having the options to provide feedback and then give examples as to what I mean because then it shows that I'm trying to help enhance the work that is already up and open to the public. I also really like reaching and looking at things that may not confuse me at the moment but could potentially confuse others without any context of the situation or the meaning of some words. Feedback should be seen as a positive but not strictly as praise because then the writer is less likely to put in more effort to create an even better version of their story than they currently have. 


Image: I have not failed quote from Edison (Garydhenderson.com)

Feedback Thoughts

Feedback Thoughts

How I perceive the comments of others 

After reading two articles over the idea of "feedback" it kind of puts into perspective how I have learned to take feedback throughout my years in college. The two articles I read were Seven Ways to Crush Self-Doubt in Creative Work, as well as How to Mentor a Perfectionist. Both articles hit right at home to me because I try so hard to be the book definition of "perfect" sometimes. My goal seems to always want to impress everyone, regardless if I'm proud of what I did or inspired by what I did or anything of the sort. They both touch on learning to trust yourself and your gut when it comes to your creativity and that your work can be successful regardless of someone reaping over it or it not passing the "perfect" definition. I want to look at what is being critiqued and take it as help to go in the right direction so that I'm still on a successful path, not the "only" path.

Image: Inner Critic from Flickr