My Feedback Thoughts

Th first article I read was, Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head. I choose this article because I know I am my biggest critic, and most of the time I am brutally harsh on myself. Often times other people's validation of my actions or work has no meaning to me because I am too caught up in my own head. The funny thing is, I think I am a pretty uplifting source to other people, just not to myself. What I took from this article, is that maybe I need to be a more positive, uplifting person to myself, not just to others. I need to find the light in every circumstance I face, I need to say uplifting things to myself, I need to trust the positivity, and I need to interpret the positivity. My main take away from the article is that I should value other people's opinions over the perfectionist voice inside my head.

(A picture of positive words. Photo by Carol VanHook)

The second article I choose to read was, Seven ways to Crush Self-Doubt. As I said above, I am a perfectionist and very hard on myself. I do not think I struggle with confidence in most aspects of life, but I am very insecure when it comes to writing. Writing has never really been my thing and it has made me doubt my ability to write decently. After reading this article, I came to the conclusion that I should embrace my own creativity and trust myself. I think this will really help me maybe not think all my ideas are totally whack just because they are not always the most mainstream or logical ideas. I did not learn this lesson from this article, but I was reminded by this article that I need to let go of the idea of perfection because perfect will never exist. I was also reminded not to compared myself or my work to others, which is always a nice little self reminder. I think as I get feedback in this class and throughout this semester, I might like to refer back to this article because it was a nice little reminder to be myself and that making mistakes and/or imperfections does not define me.