Week 2: Feedback Thoughts


Figure 1: Feedback Blue Diamond Gallery

The most important factors in feedback are accuracy and precision; all feedback must be constrained within these two parameters. Once feedback is accurate and precise within a reasonable degree, it is important to have a diversity of perspectives, and to be able to learn from this diverse, but constrained feedback.

False feedback is unbelievably harmful. False internal negative feedback leads to things like suicide, anorexia, and depression. False internal positive feedback will run you into a brick wall. False external feedback will lead to either the results labelled above, a serious miscalibration, or, in my case, a serious mistrust of external feedback. I should mention that as a child, I was feed a saccharine diet of praise and naive optimism, and as I realized that I was lied to, I came to distrust almost all positive feedback in general. I think that's one of the most damaging phenomenon in my life.

As such, it is necessary to consider negative feedback, if it is accurate.

Links to the articles that I chose

A Simple 5-Second Habit to Rewire Your Harshly Self-Critical Brain

Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head


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