How often do you seek feedback?

How do you improve your skills?

Seeking and asking for feedback is one of the best ways to improve your skills, whatever they might be. Asking for feedback is important because, without it, you’re left to judge your own abilities. And while you might be a good judge of your skills, it’s difficult not to be unbiased towards yourself.

One of the keys to seeking or asking for feedback is that you don’t or shouldn’t ask for it from any and everyone you know. The people closest to you might not be willing or even qualified to provide you with feedback, or they might be overly critical and certain boundaries might be crossed since they know you so well.

The best way to get feedback is to seek out other professionals or individuals that have the skills you’re trying to develop, or improve, and ask them for their unbiased opinion. Yes, in some cases you might have to pay for their time, but this might make their feedback even more valuable to you.

Seeking feedback is not a mandatory part of life, but if you’re actively looking to improve any skill that you have then asking for and receiving feedback is probably the best, and in some cases, the fastest way to improve.

So, if improving areas of your life are important to you, then begin seeking feedback today. At first, hearing that you’re not as good as you think you are or like to be, might be a difficult pill to swallow. But once you learn to accept that you are where you are, then there’s nothing but improvement in front of you. And that’s what you’re aiming for.

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