I like to think of myself as someone who is very open to feedback. I think I search it out. A friend even affectionately called me a feedback slut. Yet, I know I also wrestle with stubbornness. Which is where my blog (www.swartdonkey.com) gets its name… stubborn, noisy, and ignorant. The nut of the issue is when my self-perception and the feedback clash. When I still feel I have the right of it, even if I don’t have the skill set to be able to articulate a path. From where the clashing alternative is to mine. We only have access to our own narrators and back stories. The feedback we get is as faulty a path. We might not even hear it in the way it was intended. Perhaps another aspect of Donkeyness is appropriate. Wikipedia says “equids evolved as grazing animals, adapted to eating small amounts of the same food all day long, traveling significant distances each day in order to obtain adequate nutrition”. Feedback and change is easier when you have faith in your endurance, and time to chew.
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