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How to move past false politeness in creative feedback groups

My writing group has been meeting for two years and we've developed this dynamic where we're all too nice to give each other real feedback but we're also all secretly frustrated that our work isn't improving. We're stuck in false politeness and I don't know how to break us out of it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group seeking growth has unconsciously chosen comfort over challenge, creating a system that protects egos while preventing the very development everyone actually wants.

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