Self-Feedback: The Art of Giving Feedback to Ourselves

• Focus on improvement. If we are thinking about what we are doing well and/or want to improve, we are doing some internal prioritization.
• Examine our motives and results. When we own our outcomes, we naturally begin to ask ourselves what we could have done differently or better.
• Raise our curiosity. Giving feedback to ourselves can lead to us asking for feedback from others.
• Build our confidence. Giveing yourself a pep-talk, is a useful form of self-feedback.

Here is a four-step process to help you do it.

1. Ask yourself. What went well? What could I have improved? Which parts surprised me?
2. Listen to yourself. For self-feedback to be helpful, it must be heard and valued.
3. Try something. Now you can test what you have learned! Try something new, based on the new insights.
4. Start over. Start with step one again. Doing this loop creates greater self-awareness, and most likely, improved performance and results.

When you actively give yourself feedback and actively seek it from others as well, your performance, results, and confidence will grow, and who doesn’t want those things?

Journaling is a good way of keeping record of your feedback sessions and monitor progress.

You can also read more about self reflection.