Actually, there are three tasks, not two. There’s recognizing whether something has flaws, recognizing whether something is good, and creating something good.
You’re also comparing criticizing others with creating yourself. If you compared criticizing yourself, you might find it’s the same quality as your writing.
It’s hard to know. If others found problems, then you’re a bad self-critic. If others didn’t find problems, you’re a good writer, but we don’t know about your critic abilities.
What I meant was really along the lines of comparing how good your self-criticism is of stuff you’ve written a long time ago with your criticism of others. If you’re better at criticising others (my guess), then you could try to account for that deficit when comparing that to your writing ability. I don’t know how far that will get you.
I personally don’t think it’s a matter of skill. I think everyone is better at criticizing than at creating. It’s just easier.
Sounds like a P vs NP thing. Easy to recognise whether something is good than to discover something good.
Actually, there are three tasks, not two. There’s recognizing whether something has flaws, recognizing whether something is good, and creating something good.
You’re also comparing criticizing others with creating yourself. If you compared criticizing yourself, you might find it’s the same quality as your writing.
I’m not sure what that means. If I write an article and find no errors in it, am I a great writer, or a lousy critic?
It’s hard to know. If others found problems, then you’re a bad self-critic. If others didn’t find problems, you’re a good writer, but we don’t know about your critic abilities.
What I meant was really along the lines of comparing how good your self-criticism is of stuff you’ve written a long time ago with your criticism of others. If you’re better at criticising others (my guess), then you could try to account for that deficit when comparing that to your writing ability. I don’t know how far that will get you.
I agree that it can’t be compared directly.