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Dealing with the Critics
I could tell you about a million times in my life that I have worked on a song, a project, or just an idea for a creative team or a business only to share it and receive a load of criticism and negative feedback. If you’re a creative person, I’m sure you’ve experienced your fair share of criticism or negative reception of something that you’ve worked really hard on.
It happens to all of us.
It doesn’t matter the “level” you’re at, it doesn’t matter how much experience you have, and it doesn’t matter what you’ve created in the past. Every creative person experiences critique and negative feedback on things from time to time. It’s what you do with that information and how you let it effect you that counts.
First, understand that it’s really a good thing that people share this with you. We rarely grow from our victories or by the people who are fans of our work telling us how great it is. We grow from our critics. But, understand that there are only 2 healthy things to do with negative feedback or critique… grow from it or forget it.
If your negative feedback or critique comes from someone you respect and is specific and understandable, you can take that information and figure out how to grow from it. You can figure out how to increase your skill level, how to invest more time, how to see things from a different perspective.
However, if the critique comes from the cheap seats and isn’t specific, helpful, or clear then just set it aside and don’t let it effect your confidence, your passion, or your trajectory.
I will usually ask people to clarify things when receiving this kind of feedback and typically people who truly want to be helpful can add some sort of clarity and give me something that I can apply or use to grow in my ability or understanding. However, when people really can’t expand on their perspective or their feelings about what you’ve created, don’t worry about it. Just set that information aside and move on.
Being able to listen to other people’s opinions and grow from them without letting them affect your confidence or momentum as an artist creates a strong foundation for you to continue to create better and better work moving forward.
We need critique.
We need to know where we can grow and how we can make our ideas and our art better, but it takes an understanding on our part of how we can receive that information and turn it into something that makes us better and makes our creativity better as well.
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MY⚡️FI Podcast
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On this episode of MYFI I get to welcome my dear friends and rising indie rock stars, My Fever. Their first full-length LP, Escapism, was just released and is filled with incredible, pointed, and powerful indie rock gems. Jump in the conversation as we talk about the new album, the hurdles they had to overcome in making the record and then having to wait 4 years to release it, and the hopes they have for having a music career in the new online landscape of the music industry.
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