"Like a vague cloud of raw thought, it's that sense that there's something more to an idea or experience. It floats around my head, bumping into walls until, eventually, my brain connects the dots and packages it into something worth exploring. It's a bit like trying to herd smoke, or like getting a hundred angry bees to march, single file down a straw."
"So... after a few important people in my life called out my tendency toward self-criticism. Basically, I couldn't take a compliment. This, in true Jake fashion, provoked a pretty solid period of self-reflection. Which eventually led me to the thought: "You believe your self-criticism is objective, while dismissing others' praise as distorted by psychological biases and social pressure." That realisation was valuable on its own. It shifted how I interpret positive feedback."
Jake is a Product Designer who habitually scrutinizes minor ideas and daydreams extensively. Persistent self-criticism prevents him from accepting compliments and prompted deep personal reflection. He realized he views his own self-criticism as objective while dismissing others' praise as distorted by psychological biases and social pressure. That realization changed how he interprets positive feedback and led to broader thinking about design. He questions how much designers can trust user feedback given human bias, emotion, and context, and notes the influence of cognitive biases such as confirmation bias and selective perception. He aims to examine how performative behaviors and subjective truths shape research and product decisions.
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