Thursday, August 01, 2013
One Quick Way To Construct Better Criticism
Fast Company | Business + Innovation: Given poorly, criticism tends to lead to the criticized parties involved feeling like crap--and the criticizer looking like a jerk (or worse).
If you're a psychologist, you'd call it reactance. If you're a regular person, you'd call it a dick move.
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Constructive criticism, especially at a drama school like Carnegie Mellon, is overwhelmingly present in our daily lives. Just the other day my acting class had a discussion about the delicate way in which we must handle criticizing another student’s work. Because we have been and will continue to be working in such close proximity to one another, personal conflicts often get muddled in. To keep the classroom a safe space for experimentation, we have to keep our critical comments as objective as possible: beginning our statements with “I saw” instead of “I like” or “I didn’t like.” This article makes a good point in that, instead of looking at criticism as an attack, we need to remember its usefulness. Without criticism, we’d go with the first idea we had, which is, oftentimes, not the best one.
54101A, Andrew Smith Acting I, Kate Rosenberg
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