Feedback Strategies

The first article I read was Be a Mirror. One thing I found significant about this article was the mention of taking one's self out of feedback. I agree with the notion that by saying to someone "I think..." or "I like..." takes away from growth and thinking how to improve upon one's work. By saying this, a person is more likely in the future to direct his or her work towards meeting people's standards and approval more than anything else. Another significant point was to focus on what is there or how it got to that point rather than what is not there. By looking at some aspect that is missing, it may just be another way to discourage improvement or cause the person to work towards the approval of the one commenting.

The second article I read was Presence, Not Praise. As many of these like to take from Carol Dweck, one thing to from this article is essentially not to praise based on an aesthetic quality, like intelligent or beauty, but rather hard work. By focusing the former, there leaves no room for improvement in the eyes of that person, and when that quality from before may be lacking in the next work, that person may think that he or she has lost a skill or touch and allow that to contribute to a further downward spiral. Whereas praising that hard work and how something was done well, that person may be able to continue to improve on it and be better able to see where he or she is lacking without as destructive consequences.

Image of many different people with colorful feedback bubbles

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