On Critique
November 29, 2020. 4:37 a.m.
I would like to thank all of my mentors, former professors/teachers, and ALL the librarians in the world for instilling this love of critical thinking. For making me understand that if you deeply love something, you must be critical of it. For helping me experience that feeling of pushing past disappointment and making something that is already good/great better. Because it is in that measured "critique" that you make the thing better, that allows the thing to have a life that goes far beyond what you think is possible when you're making it. I'd like to thank all of them for making me understand that criticism isn't personal, that it has a deep purpose in life. This may be easier to accept when we are talking about a drawing or painting or sculpture but this kind of "critique for love and growth" can be applied to anything, even the country you deeply love and value.
I would like to thank all of my mentors, former professors/teachers, and ALL the librarians in the world for instilling this love of critical thinking. For making me understand that if you deeply love something, you must be critical of it. For helping me experience that feeling of pushing past disappointment and making something that is already good/great better. Because it is in that measured "critique" that you make the thing better, that allows the thing to have a life that goes far beyond what you think is possible when you're making it. I'd like to thank all of them for making me understand that criticism isn't personal, that it has a deep purpose in life. This may be easier to accept when we are talking about a drawing or painting or sculpture but this kind of "critique for love and growth" can be applied to anything, even the country you deeply love and value.
