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Feedback This week we are learning about giving constructive feedback to our peers. The two articles I read on this were very informative and really shed a light on the faults of just telling someone "good job." The first article I read was  The Trouble with “Amazing”: Giving Praise that Matters  and this article really showed me how detrimental generic praise can be. When you are giving someone lame feedback on something that could be improved you are allowing their work to be subpar. There is laziness that is associated with the majority of feedback in today's world and the majority comes from not trying to hurt someone's feelings. Another article I read just reiterated this point.  Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"  is an article that gives alternative ways to give feedback without saying good job. I think that this is a really great way to get individuals to take constructive criticism better and it allows the populations to work to improv...

Self Criticism Link With this post, I am discussing my thoughts on the two articles I read over discussing feedback and how it can have a positive or negative effect on one's self and their work. The first article I read was titled  Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head . One idea that this article promoted was the practice of enforcing positive thoughts from yourself. They called it "5 positive voices for every one negative voice." This simply means looking for five different positive outcomes form a negative situation. This practice would seem to make light of a negative situation as well as give helpful feedback from a negative outcome. I would like to start using this practice to see how it affects me in the future with my mistakes. The other article I read was titled  Why Rejection Hurts So Much and What to Do About It.  This article shines a light on self-criticism and really places most of the rejection blame on our own blame. This article shows how...