Why Bad Feedback Is Sometimes a Good Thing?

           

            Receiving negative feedback may hit quite hard on our self-confidence. However, negative feedback may turn out to be even more useful than a positive confidence-boost ear-balm, and perceiving it properly and wisely can serve one much more efficiently than holding grudges and self-pitying. 

            The main reason why negative feedback is a good thing is its honesty and sincerity. Now, while positive feedback can hold all the range of customer's satisfaction with the product, from being merely satisfied to being awestruck, negative feedback is always bald and blunt: something went wrong, and needs to be fixed. Positive feedback is a comfort zone and a standard – achieving it is not a jump above one's shoulders, it's a mere result of doing an assigned project, and doing it well. Negative feedback is a little tsunami in a peaceful ocean of one's element, and requires immediate actions. Don't we all need a little push sometimes?

            Of course, positive feedback is important. It lifts your spirits, cheers you up, reminds you that you do not work in vain and actually contribute to someone's good mood. Moreover, positive feedback signifies for a loyal customer, who is likely to come back and continue cooperation. Negative feedback, in its turn, gives you a clear picture of what mistakes to avoid and what to do to take your skills on a whole new level. 

            Also, negative feedback may not always come in a constructive and tactful form. It may sound offensive, discouraging, disappointing and unfair. However, any feedback is a chain reaction, a customer's call for action, their plea for their voiced concerns to be heard and considered. Thus, negative feedback can help one develop a tactic of approaching the same task more effectively, test one's ability to withstand critique and work on the weaknesses, and give one a steer on how they could do better.

         What's your opinion upon any negative feedback?

6 Important Skills You Can Acquire With the Help of Freelancing

Freelancing – especially academic writing – is not only about using your writing skills in the best way possible. It can actually help you acquire some important skills to come in handy during your daily activities apart from your freelance occupation.

 1) Time-management – people all over the world pay for time-management classes, attend trainings and basically spend their precious time learning the mysterious science of controlling the time and being productive which, in the long run, can as well prove to be a mere waste of time :) But look – you are practicing your time-management skills every time you get the project done on time!

2) Research skills – it takes a great deal of talent and continuously obtained experience to narrow down your research and sift through megabytes and pages of information to find just what you need, and you can only get lucky enough to stumble upon the correct web/book page just so many times.

3) Self-control

4) Self-discipline

5) Motivation

- Speaking about the three aforementioned skills within the realms of freelancing, you cannot and will not finish the assigned project on time if you do not restrict yourself from some procrastionational callings while working, do not take the responsibility for the uninviting prospects of failing the plan the client counts on, and, last but not least, scrape the words for the sake of the word count, not being motivated and interested in the subject of research.

6) Communication skills – working on a freelance basis does require quite a bit of communication. Though performed mainly online, it still develops your communication skills, as it is much harder to put the information in the typed words not being able to rely on non-verbal communication techniques: body language, intonation, gestures, etc.

The entire writing process, as you see, consists of constant self-improvement. Seize the opportunity to become better and better with every page, project and day!