🗣️😢"Constructive Criticism: A Key to Change in The Other Wes Moore"

The best things to learn are sometimes not praised, but rather critiqued. In The Other Wes Moore we witness how feedback and correction are determining the lives of two men of the same name but who ended up totally different. It is not whether they received criticism but the manner in which the criticism was administered as well as who was behind it.


The Correctional Method of Learning.

Constructive criticism was a turning point to the author, Wes Moore. His mother Joy never allowed him to go too far. When his conduct began leading him in the wrong way, she never rebuked him, but she refocused him. He did not go to military school as a punishment, but as a wake-up call. Here, leaders and mentors helped him back up with discipline, responsibility and structure. The reason why the criticism was so powerful was that it was made out of love.


The other Wes Moore did not get as much support as he did. His environment, the teachers, his family and even the police did not provide him with constructive feedback but rather destructive feedback. Individuals criticized him on what he did wrong but seldom showed how to do it better. The lack of good examples or even real opportunities to change, criticism simply amounted to rejection.

Two Different Outcomes

Wes, the author, learnt how to use the feedback as fuel - he made correction a growth. It went down like a defeat on the other Wes. Their opposing lives teach us that people are only changed through criticism but also care, consistency and opportunity.

Healthy criticism is expected to strengthen and not to destroy. It is an alternative to telling somebody he is wrong, which is telling them how to be right.

Connecting It to Real Life

This read made me consider the way I respond to feedback in my personal life. When another person identifies a mistake, I have learned that the manner in which they communicate this is important. When it comes to just judgment, it hurts. However, when it is sincere feedback accompanied by encouragement - then it challenges me to do better.

Constructive criticism can only work in school or even in personal life provided that it is by those who believe in an individual. We all need people to see in us more than wrongs just like the writer, Wes did.


Final Thought

The Other Wes Moore demonstrates how feedback, which is hopeless, may ruin potential, whereas feedback, which is full of love, may change it. The point is not that one has to be good, but that one is ready to develop, to hear and to learn those people who care about us to correct.

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