Being evaluated...

When I get back the peer evaluation sheets from my fellow course mates, it is interesting to actually know how we performed or to see ourselves in the eye of the other party. Most of the time we will think that we are almost perfect and there are no need of any improvements. Firstly, as a human being naturally we tend to have self fulfilling bias. Eventually we fail to see what are our weaknesses and deficiencies that require our attention to make improvements for the better. By the help of our friends’ evaluations, we may have the opportunity and chance to see our own default or what had gone wrong. Sometimes we just fail to realize it but almost always the people around us can easily identified our fault, as the saying goes, a good friend is indeed our best mirror. Nevertheless, at the moment we receive the feedbacks, first and foremost we need to accept it sincerely, then only we will accept our friends’ critics and suggestions as helpful constructive advices that could help us in correcting our mistakes and avoid from committing it again in the future. We should not perceive it as personal attacks and ignore the constructive comments and suggestion. In other words be open-minded and take count of the suggestions and try to improve as much as possible.