Feedback Thoughts

I am plagued with an anxiety of presenting my work and what kind of feedback I could get from said work. The article 6 Mental Habits That Sabotage Your Success highlights 3 issues that I know that I have: "believing self-doubt",  "putting yourself down", and "second-guessing yourself". I am especially guilty of second-guessing a lot of the work that I do, like writing blog posts for this class. I put too much effort into thinking what I am trying to convey and then worrying about whether it would be taken the wrong way or just not being my best writing. This then ties into putting myself down and believing self-doubt.

Such leads to the need to Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head. I tend to ignore or doubt most of the positive feedback or comments I receive. I focus on what is wrong with my work and ask for how to fix or improve that. It is easy to forget that you need to actually hear the positives as well and how to play those as strengths.

My reception to criticism is better now than it was in years past. The thought of strangers or acquaintances thinking poorly of what I do still bothers me. Now I feel I can show my work to friends without too much fear knowing that they can find my errors while telling me how to improve them and mention the good points and how to strengthen them. With any luck, hopefully I can become better at receiving such from strangers as well.

Image of how we may feel when we receive feedback: either they like it or not

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