121 sats \ 3 replies \ @freetx 7 Jun \ parent \ on: How do you deal with negative feedback? Design
So much of how you handle feedback is related to "how much of an expert do you perceive yourself to be"
For example. Even though I dabble in programming, and can hack my way around most typical jobs, I do not consider myself a programmer. Or to say it another way: I consider myself a fairly average/poor programmer.
Thus, when I receive criticism on code I've written, I'm generally thankful and I study what they've pointed out to make my code better.
Likewise, with Chess, I don't view myself as really that good....so corrections and feedback doesn't really affect me emotionally.
However, there may be other topics that I consider myself to be competent/proficient , where I may bristle at criticism.
Thats why its important to try to maintain a "beginners mind" about such things.
From your previous comments about Linux and hacker news and other technical matters, I assumed you are a software engineer!
Oh I love the phrase beginner’s mind n will be sure to remember it.
I think the challenge lies in that by volunteering to share, I m already presenting myself to be an expert (even though I’m still a novice at using Zoom haha), so I think balancing this dichotomy between expert persona n beginner’s mind will involve a lot of context switching
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