How to refine your work?
By subjecting your work to questioning, to scrutiny.
Other eyes—fresh eyes—help you see the things you don’t see or learned to unsee.
If you don’t want to go through the discomfort of being in the spotlight, you are missing out on the opportunity to improve your work—a kind of work that benefits others, includes others.
And the way to know if your work’s perceived value is the kind that the people you seek to serve really need is by asking them whether your work impacts them the way you intended.
Accounting for feedback can be a reiterative process and, at times, inconvenient. But the inconvenience wouldn’t matter if you made your work more relevant to those who need it.
We could be satisfied with our work and be deaf to feedback, thinking that the output is the goal. No. The output is only a means, a tool. What really matters is knowing who your work is for and doing it for them.
jessa 