Feedback is information about how someone experiences, understands or evaluates something you’ve made, offered or communicated.
Useful feedback gives you something to work with. It can be encouraging or uncomfortable. Neither quality alone tells you how good the information is.
"I like it" feels lovely. "I got lost here" may help you edit.
Before asking, consider what you need to learn. Is the argument clear? Does the product solve the intended problem? Is the price explained? Does this person have the experience to answer that question?
You can welcome a response without making it responsible for the whole decision.
The Creative Hero’s Journey explores this in the realm Permission through I’m Done Asking. The book asks what happens when a request for information quietly becomes a request to be told you’re allowed to continue.
Sometimes the next opinion is useful. Sometimes you’re collecting them because none can promise you won’t be disappointed.
Approval names the reassurance you may be seeking. Creative authorship considers how you remain involved in the decision while allowing other people to improve the work.
Noba’s Creativity discusses creative thinking and the development of ideas. It gives background for seeing evaluation as part of making, rather than as a final judgement of the maker.