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Criticism and conversation
16 years ago
This is an interesting subject ive seen from time to time, and i think its an important idea.
Many times through my school career, ive heard different ways on how to give criticism and hold a conversation on it. I think giving criticism is a great thing and it helps improves peoples work from time to time, especially mine. But, at the same time ive also seen that people sometimes get offended when they receive criticism, and vise versa when the criticism is disagreed with.
An interesting fast is, there is nothing wrong with disagreeing with someone on a subject. Ive been taught, an interesting thing called, "Agree to disagree". Meaning, its ok to disagree in a conversation, and to accept the other persons disagreement. But heres a fact... weather your giving criticism or receiving it, you need to state WHY, and sometimes to defend your opinion. This is how you hold a proper conversation. Through my career, my teachers and professors have taught me that if you state a opinion or view, that you need to defend your point and explain why. Otherwise, the conversation at most would be meaningless.
Its more rude to give criticism and walk away, then to state your opinion/feelings on it. Yes... sometimes ppl may not like what they hear and sometimes they will be offended, but again, that's part of conversation and how things are. And we all go through it. believe me folks, i LOVE it when ppl give crit and help me on my work, and when they do i go back and fix it and try to improve on it, but...i will state WHY i did that certain thing and ill probably ask questions and even disagree on some things, but again...this is proper conversation. Now im not saying that you should always disagree but, just don't be offended to say it.
In my opinion, if someone wanted to give me or others criticism and not want to hear something in return then...you defeat the whole propose of the talk, unless your a teacher with 30 other student in the class i guess haha. My point is, don't feel offended if someone disagrees with you, and that its ok. Just state why and share each others view points. And even as i write this journal, i know ppl will disagree or have view points, but that's ok, in fact...i expect you to. As ppl share view points and there knowledge, we can gain a bit of knowledge ourselves from it. Ive also been raised around different cultures and such so, keep in mine folks that others might expect to disagree to hold conversation.
Another interesting thought of mine is, if everyone agreed on everything...how would we have anything to talk about? And for many years, ive had trouble holding conversations myself and understanding others because of my "Asperger disability".
And because of this, ppl from time to time treat me like an idiot. But my point of this journal is, keep an open mind and don't feel offended on criticism and disagreement. We learn from each other when sharing our views and explanations on things.
Many times through my school career, ive heard different ways on how to give criticism and hold a conversation on it. I think giving criticism is a great thing and it helps improves peoples work from time to time, especially mine. But, at the same time ive also seen that people sometimes get offended when they receive criticism, and vise versa when the criticism is disagreed with.
An interesting fast is, there is nothing wrong with disagreeing with someone on a subject. Ive been taught, an interesting thing called, "Agree to disagree". Meaning, its ok to disagree in a conversation, and to accept the other persons disagreement. But heres a fact... weather your giving criticism or receiving it, you need to state WHY, and sometimes to defend your opinion. This is how you hold a proper conversation. Through my career, my teachers and professors have taught me that if you state a opinion or view, that you need to defend your point and explain why. Otherwise, the conversation at most would be meaningless.
Its more rude to give criticism and walk away, then to state your opinion/feelings on it. Yes... sometimes ppl may not like what they hear and sometimes they will be offended, but again, that's part of conversation and how things are. And we all go through it. believe me folks, i LOVE it when ppl give crit and help me on my work, and when they do i go back and fix it and try to improve on it, but...i will state WHY i did that certain thing and ill probably ask questions and even disagree on some things, but again...this is proper conversation. Now im not saying that you should always disagree but, just don't be offended to say it.
In my opinion, if someone wanted to give me or others criticism and not want to hear something in return then...you defeat the whole propose of the talk, unless your a teacher with 30 other student in the class i guess haha. My point is, don't feel offended if someone disagrees with you, and that its ok. Just state why and share each others view points. And even as i write this journal, i know ppl will disagree or have view points, but that's ok, in fact...i expect you to. As ppl share view points and there knowledge, we can gain a bit of knowledge ourselves from it. Ive also been raised around different cultures and such so, keep in mine folks that others might expect to disagree to hold conversation.
Another interesting thought of mine is, if everyone agreed on everything...how would we have anything to talk about? And for many years, ive had trouble holding conversations myself and understanding others because of my "Asperger disability".
And because of this, ppl from time to time treat me like an idiot. But my point of this journal is, keep an open mind and don't feel offended on criticism and disagreement. We learn from each other when sharing our views and explanations on things.
"If you have no solution, you don't have a problem." I feel this applies well to art criticism. Since art is largely a matter of personal perception it is essential that details be given. Example: "The arm looks funny," is just a complaint. No solution is presented, so it is not a problem. Just whining. On the other hand, "The perspective of the arm does not fit the rest of the image," gives the artist clues as to why a viewer isn't 100% awed.
cuz I have *sigh*
(my sister thinks it means i'm 'unemployable' XP)
PBS had a mini-movie on Independent Lens "Today's Man" in which the filmmaker featured her brother's tenuous situation (in New York City!)
I thank you for sharing your thoughts. I can have difficulty at times with speech and small talk, and try to keep notes at hand to avoid letting my ideas and projects slip from my memory