An ideal time to ask for feedback
👀 Today’s tip: Ask for feedback on your work before you think it’s ready.
It’s a dilemma: You don’t want anyone to see what you’re working on until it’s in great shape. To get it in great shape, you need some outside input and direction. For progress to happen, something has to give.
As Nick Irving writes on Human Parts, that something should be your belief that you can possibly tell when your project is ready for feedback. “It’s possible your novel is garbage — but you’re a lousy judge,” he writes. “Your work will never live up to your own standards.” The best time to show it to someone else is before you think you should. Otherwise, you may never get there.
📚 More from Forge on getting input:
When You’re Truly Good at Your Job, You Want to Hear the Ways You Suck at It
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I Gave My Husband a Workplace Performance Review
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How to Know When It’s Time to Show People Your Creative Work
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