critical thinking

learn to separate your personal opinion from your critical one. accepting that these can sometimes exist in contradiction to one another will make you feel saner, i promise.

when i know that i’m going to review something, i try to avoid any discussions of it online until i’ve handed my piece in. i’ll also avoid reading what other critics are saying if i haven’t yet formulated a clear take; it becomes harder to discern what qualms belong to me and which ones i have inherited from other people if internalize everyone... See more

some work will illicit an immediate reaction from you: that reaction will not always be critically accurate or fair.