Receiving Feedback Thoughts

For the introduction to receiving feedback, I read these articles: 5 tips for receiving feedback like a champ, and overcoming the fear of feedback.  I guess I went into the first article with some high expectations: some 5 step process to immediately be better at getting feedback. What I ultimately found was that I think simply reminding yourself to remain in a growth mindset is basically the best way to view things. I definitely used to be terrible at receiving feedback; I can remember a time when I got in a fight with my mom over things she thought I should change in elementary school. But nowadays, I think I'm better at receiving critical feedback. I'm far from "receiving feedback like a champ," but I can usually make myself think of receiving feedback as a good thing instead of as an attack. One of the ways that I can generally help myself receive feedback is to simply ask people why they think I'm doing something wrong; opening a dialogue with critics can really help to understand why something was wrong, and what can be done in the future for similar situations. Although I have high school nightmares of getting back a paper with red ink all over it, I can honestly say the worst feedback memory I have was in a college english class. My critic simply said they liked my paper, and wouldn't change anything. I hated that; I wanted to make it better, I knew it wasn't perfect (and my professor certainly knew it wasn't perfect,) but I didn't have a chance to improve it. In my experience, everyone can find a way they would make something better, so when someone says something is fine the way it is, they generally mean that they don't care enough to really look into it.

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(A Terrible Example of Constructive Criticism - Widewalls)