As the Story Will Tell Itself: To Become the Mouth Which Holds the Universe

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 wo...

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 ...