Negative Feedback

building a theater eco-system on disapproval

I love negative feedback!

So do most designers. Or, rather, we are used to it. Theater design had a “charismatic leader” for half a century. Our charismatic leader was not up-to-date on the latest psychology research on dishing some positive feedback with the negative. Is it 3 positives before you can come with a negative? 5 for happy marriage? less than 2 positives before a negative traumatizes a kid? 6 is optimal?

What did positive feedback look like from American theater’s autocrat?

“This is actually quite interesting.” Note the actually. As in, he is surprised that something interesting to him came from you. Or… “This is interesting.” Whatever made Ming say that needs to go into your top 10 greatest achievements.

A smile - also a powerful positive.

That’s it. That’s all there is. Positive praise from Ming Cho Lee was sparse and spare.