Feedback Thoughts

Illustration of feedback from a thumbs up to a thumbs down. Source: Website.

Article 1: Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head
The advice given in this article's main goal was to give pointers on how to stop listening to negative/critical voices in your head and start listening to the positive/constructive ones. The four ways that this can be done is by looking for positive feedback from other people on your work, learning what is positive about your work and continuing to use it, asking what was good about your work to use as future examples, and force yourself to believe that positive feedback from people is true. Although these steps would take work and time, I can see how they would benefit a person who is struggling with a negative mindset or focusing solely on negative feedback.

Article 2: Why Rejection Hurts So Much
This article discussed the reasoning behind why rejection hurts so much and how we can attempt to stop it from doing so. As it turns out, our brains actually respond to rejection in the same way that they respond to physical pain, so it actually hurts when we are turned away. Three ways to cope with this, according to the article, is to completely stop self-criticizing by looking back at what could be improved and what went well in your work and not taking any rejection personally, reminding yourself of your self-worth, and turning to people who you know care about you. These tips totally make sense and the article helped me to understand why rejection literally hurts us, as well as how to cope with the pain when it happens.

Overall, I think feedback is an absolute necessity whether it be on work, relationships, or life choices. Negative feedback can sting, but using ways to learn from it, like those in the articles above, can bring positivity out of it and positive feedback is helpful too in that you can learn what you do best and stick to it.