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Most people today are seriously involved in some effort to develop new skills or some other initiative for personal improvement, like acquiring better habits. However, when we invest our time and energy in such goals, it may be difficult to measure our progress. This difficulty to assess our results may be very frustrating.
今天，大多数人都认真地参与一些努力来发展新技能或其他一些个人改进的举措，比如养成更好的习惯。然而，当我们把时间和精力投入到这些目标上时，可能很难衡量我们的进展。评估我们结果的这种困难可能非常令人沮丧。

In my opinion, the best way to measure our progress when learning new skills or developing better habits is to implement feedback mechanisms. These feedback mechanisms are the tools we can employ to actually guarantee that we are moving in the right direction, and have concrete metrics about how fast we are moving in this direction.
在我看来，在学习新技能或养成更好的习惯时，衡量我们进步的最好方法是实施反馈机制。这些反馈机制是我们可以用来实际保证我们朝着正确方向前进的工具，并有关于我们朝着这个方向前进的速度的具体指标。

How to receive feedback? 如何接收反馈？

Feedback mechanisms are very important in any activity you undertake to gain experience. For each type of activity you should plan the most efficient type of feedback. Planning the feedback mechanisms is an integral part of the plan for each personal or professional development initiative. Without this kind of feedback, your plan won’t be complete and you won’t be able to learn what you need to learn.
反馈机制在您为获得经验而进行的任何活动中都非常重要。对于每种类型的活动，您应该计划最有效的反馈类型。规划反馈机制是每个个人或职业发展计划计划的一个组成部分。没有这种反馈，你的计划就不会完成，你将无法学习你需要学习的东西。

A basic feedback tool is questionnaires. At the end of each activity, both face-to-face and online, you can send a questionnaire to the participants. The answers will be very useful for you to identify your strengths as well as your weaknesses.
一个基本的反馈工具是问卷。在每项活动结束时，无论是面对面还是在线，您都可以向参与者发送调查问卷。这些答案将非常有用，可以确定自己的优势和劣势。

Furthermore, if you repeat a type of activity frequently, the feedback will allow you to identify trends: Do you have clear indications that you are improving? Are you becoming more experienced? Are you receiving less criticism? Are the people who are participating in these activities becoming more satisfied than before?
此外，如果您经常重复某种类型的活动，反馈将使您能够识别趋势：您是否有明确的迹象表明您正在改进？你变得更有经验了吗？你受到的批评少了吗？参加这些活动的人是否变得比以前更满意？

For example, if you’re leading a team, you might want to ask the people you’re leading to provide you with some form of feedback on your performance. In general, in any professional environment you should ask for the feedback of all your co-workers, and not only the opinion of your superiors or people who are managing you.
例如，如果你正在领导一个团队，你可能想要求你领导的人向你提供某种形式的关于你的表现的反馈。一般来说，在任何专业环境中，你都应该征求所有同事的反馈，而不仅仅是你的上级或管理你的人的意见。

Outside the professional context, it is also possible to do a general feedback exercise, in which you can ask your friends to describe your main qualities. The responses you’ll receive can be quite surprising.
在专业背景之外，也可以做一个一般的反馈练习，你可以让你的朋友描述你的主要品质。您将收到的回复可能会非常令人惊讶。

For example, I recently asked 20 friends to describe 3 of my qualities. Several people wrote that I am honest, trustworthy, with integrity. This surprised me. Obviously I believe that I really have these qualities, and they are very important to me, but that’s not what surprised me.
例如，我最近请20位朋友描述我的3种品质。有几个人写道，我诚实，值得信赖，正直。这让我感到惊讶。显然，我相信我真的有这些品质，它们对我来说非常重要，但这并不是让我感到惊讶的地方。

What surprised me was to see that for my friends my honesty was a quality that stood out and deserved to be mentioned as one of my main qualities. Then I understood that these friends of mine probably considered me much more honest than the average person, and that’s why they trusted me a lot. Of course it was important for me to be an honest person, but I discovered that for my friends my honesty was even more important.
令我惊讶的是，对于我的朋友来说，我的诚实是一种突出的品质，值得一提，是我的主要品质之一。然后我明白了，我的这些朋友可能认为我比普通人诚实得多，这就是为什么他们非常信任我。當然，對我來說，做一個誠實的人很重要，但我發現對我的朋友來說，我的誠實更重要。

Now think about your case. What are your main qualities? Perhaps you also have some attributes that are considered outstanding and much above average? I recommend that you also do this exercise with your friends.
现在想想你的情况。你的主要品质是什么？也许您也有一些被认为出色的属性并且远高于平均水平？我建议你也和你的朋友一起做这个练习。

Immediate feedback from Social Networks
来自社交网络的即时反馈

Social networks certainly have many flaws, and they are heavily criticized for that. But one of my favorite aspects of social media is the ability to get immediate feedback from a wide range of people.
社交网络当然有很多缺陷，并因此受到严厉批评。但我最喜欢的社交媒体的一个方面是能够从广泛的人那里获得即时反馈。

When you make a post on a social network like Facebook, that post will be immediately judged by your audience, who will react with likes and comments. So we can say that a post was successful if it generated a lot of likes and got a lot of positive comments.
当您在Facebook等社交网络上发布帖子时，该帖子将立即由您的受众判断，他们会对喜欢和评论做出反应。因此，我们可以说，如果一个帖子产生了很多喜欢并获得了很多积极的评论，那么它就是成功的。

Obviously, these likes and comments are very good for our ego, and can even create a certain dependence. There are people who are addicted to likes, and even get depressed if they make a post that receives few likes.
显然，这些喜欢和评论对我们的自我非常有益，甚至可以产生一定的依赖性。有些人沉迷于喜欢，如果他们发了一个获得很少喜欢的帖子，甚至会感到沮丧。

But if you’re really committed to developing your content generation skills, this feedback is essential. The likes indicate that your post is well written, that it is relevant, and that people agree with your way of thinking.
但是，如果您真的致力于发展您的内容生成技能，那么这种反馈是必不可少的。喜欢表明你的帖子写得很好，它是相关的，并且人们同意你的思维方式。

Thus, these skills that you develop on social media can become useful in a completely different context, like for example at work, when you need to send an email or write a comment or a post in a Slack channel.
因此，您在社交媒体上培养的这些技能可以在完全不同的环境中变得有用，例如在工作中，当您需要在 Slack 频道中发送电子邮件或撰写评论或帖子时。

In the case of LinkedIn, when you generate content you are exposing yourself to other professionals like you. This can have a direct impact on your reputation. If people like your content they will remember you, and this can generate opportunities for new projects and partnerships.
就LinkedIn而言，当您生成内容时，您将自己暴露给像您这样的其他专业人士。这可能会直接影响您的声誉。如果人们喜欢你的内容，他们会记住你，这可以为新项目和合作伙伴关系创造机会。

Please notice that it’s not about you aiming to become a digital influencer, or a “top voice”. You don’t have to strive to create content on a daily basis to impress others with your wisdom. Personally, I only write when I feel inspired and when I think I have something really interesting to contribute to my contacts.
请注意，这不是关于你的目标是成为数字影响者或“顶级声音”。您不必每天努力创建内容，以您的智慧给他人留下深刻印象。就我个人而言，我只在我感到受到启发并且我认为我有一些非常有趣的东西可以为我的联系人做出贡献时写作。

The goal here should really be to create value for your network. So when you write a post, you must think that you are using a part of your time creating content that can be useful for other people. When you get likes and positive comments, it means these people recognize that the content you’ve created really has value to them.
这里的目标应该是为您的网络创造价值。因此，当您撰写帖子时，您必须认为您正在利用一部分时间创建对其他人有用的内容。当您获得喜欢和正面评论时，这意味着这些人认识到您创建的内容对他们确实有价值。

In Summary 总结

Whenever you plan some personal or professional development activity, such as learning new skills or acquiring better habits, make sure also to integrate the appropriate feedback mechanisms that will enable you to measure your progress. For example, you can send questionnaires to your friends and co-workers, and you should also use the immediate feedback you can get from social networks.
每当您计划一些个人或职业发展活动时，例如学习新技能或养成更好的习惯，请确保还整合适当的反馈机制，使您能够衡量自己的进步。例如，您可以向朋友和同事发送调查问卷，并且还应该使用可以从社交网络获得的即时反馈。

Good luck! 祝你好运！