When I just started as a grad student I got annoyed and upset when receiving feedback. For example, when I wrote the first draft of my first abstract for a conference, my advisor rewrote it almost entirely. There were maybe a couple words there that were still mine and they were probably “the” and “rats”. Otherwise, the abstract was completely different. And with different I mean better of course, but then I found it hard to admit that back then.
Now, when I write something and I receive hardly any feedback or none at all, I get annoyed and upset. Over the years, I have learned that feedback means that people care and they want you to help improve the thing you wrote. No feedback means they either don’t care, or don’t have enough time to look at it.
