Myth-Folklore 2019

For this post, I chose to write on Deborah Maue's Giving Creative Feedback -- A Guide for Those Who Aren't Creative and Youki Terada's A Troubling Side Effect of Praise . I found Maue's article very helpful for evaluating the creative work of others while being a rather uncreative person myself. I am not creative at all and so I sometimes struggle with evaluating other people's work and creativity, either because I simply do not understand why they went a certain route or because I feel like I have insufficient creativity myself to judge others' creative work. This is especially true when it comes to writing. I myself am not a great creative writer so I have problems with evaluating other people's writing, which I can already tell I might struggle with in this class as we do this a lot in the comments assignment each week. I am getting better at giving helpful feedback but the steps Maue lays out for evaluating creative work are helpful as they help one to ...

The two articles I read for this post are Why It's So Hard to Hear Negative Feedback by Tim Herrera and Why rejection hurts so much--and what to do about it by Guy Winch. Personally, I struggle with dealing with rejection and sometimes with negative feedback, although I have gotten much better at dealing with criticism since starting university. One of the main ways that I have improved my writing is through criticism written on my papers by professors, which I find incredibly helpful. The least helpful criticisms I have ever received typically involve people telling me that they do not like the way I did something but not telling my how to improve in the future. Simply criticizing someone without offering help or guidance is not really all that helpful. I still tend to take things personally, even though I know that I shouldn't as most people mean well when they are offering criticism. Rejection, too, shouldn't be taken personally but rather as a fact of life and an op...