How I Incorporate Feedback to Better Myself As a Writer
Feedback is that ingredient in the recipe without which a dish can’t be prepared.
Whether you are working online or physically, or even if not doing anything, feedback is a part of life.
What’s feedback? It’s others' opinions about your work.
Even if you are not a working person or living as a housewife, feedback still has a place.
You cook something, others compliment it — it’s feedback.
Let’s come to the point. Are you working as a freelancer, blogger or online? Yes, feedback is a crucial part of this world.
Of course, you know that two types of feedback come in response to your work.
Negative feedback
Positive feedback
We all crave positive feedback, but who can stop negative feedback?
Out of 100, 1 can be negative, and it’s okay.
The problem is that we only know how to deal with the positive.
You also know how to deal with negative feedback for improvement.
Here is how I incorporate positive and negative feedback to better myself, and you should either
Positive feedback
Be grateful for it, but don’t be overconfident in it because it will make you arrogant, and arrogance might close the door to learning.
Take the feedback as a reward and strive for more rewards. Try to maintain it and don’t compromise the quality next time.
Negative feedback
Nobody wants negative feedback because we are human, and as per our nature, we just want appreciation.
Well, instead of avoiding it, we must face it to learn better.
Negative feedback comes in two ways.
You actually didn’t do a good job, and the bad feedback is genuine.
You did a good job, but the client, reader or audience didn’t understand it. Or maybe it’s a mindset conflict.
How to take it?
In the case of the first scenario, you must analyse the feedback; thus, yourself. Be unbiased. Accept your mistake and correct it.
Be open to accepting your mistakes because it will help you be better at writing or anything.
Denial of mistakes closes the doors to learning, and without learning, improvement doesn’t happen.
In the case of the second scenario, explain your point of view to the client, but if the client is, by choice, doing this, then stop explaining. Analyse yourself, and if you find yourself right at every point, then do not let yourself be demotivated due to an ungenerous compliment which is not true. Instead, ignore it and hold onto your goods.
Bottom line
Feedback, whether negative or positive, helps you to learn and better yourself if you take it in the right way. I learnt and realised how feedback can serve good.
Feedback is important and part of one’s life in general, regardless of work or writing.
How do you incorporate feedback?
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© Mahnoor C. 🌱