Peer Review #1

Quite recently I learned more about feedback. I think that feedback is quite useful to help you learn from mistakes and to also learn from others. I have read two blog posts, each one from a different blog, and I personally think that the experience of reading other people’s blogs has really helped me understand how people have different ways of approaching things and the way they try and communicate their thoughts.

After reading both of those interesting blogs, I gave them feedback on my thought about what they wrote. At first, I didn’t know what to say but after I did, I realised that giving other people feedback on their work is beneficial for both me and them as a learning experience.

Giving feedback to other people may seem hard and you might feel rude by pointing out their imperfections. But even though it does feel mean and difficult, as I said it is beneficial to both the commenter and the one who originally wrote the blog as both learn from the experience.

Thanks to me giving feedback, I was able to prepare myself for receiving feedback. Yes, I know receiving feedback may feel like a bad thing and we most definitely don’t like when others point out our imperfections. I most certainly hated when people were commenting badly on the things that I have done because then I felt like I am bad at what I’m doing, and I also sometimes got mad but after learning how to give and receive feedback, I realised that it’s not that bad when people point out the things that were missing. Those people are just helping you to improve in what you did.

When I read the comment on one of my blogs, sent by my peer in my college course, that helped me understand what I need to add and take away to my blogs to keep the reader’s attention and interest.

I learned more about receiving and giving feedback through four articles that were based on that topic.

Links to Articles I Read:

Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback

https://www.marshallgoldsmith.com/articles/try-feedforward-instead-feedback/

Be a Mirror

https://www.literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-now/2015/12/08/be-a-mirror-give-readers-feedback-that-fosters-a-growth-mindset

Is a Fixed Mindset Holding You Back?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-26/fixed-vs-growth-mindset-at-work-and-in-life/9897782

7 Ways to Crush Self-Doubt in Creative Work

https://spencerauthor.com/seven-ways-to-crush-self-doubt/