Feedback strategies

The articles I read were five reasons to stop saying good job and the trouble with amazing.
One thing that really stood out to me about the first article were the different ways to give effective feedback instead of just saying "good job." I have a one year old nephew now and I think these are great ideas to instill in kids when they're young and to train myself on how to properly talk to myself and making my praise specific. Next, the second article was great with the anecdote on the Samba class. I think that the phrases we use for praise have gotten watered down and lose their meaning if EVERYTHING we do is AMAZING...

nancy pelosi saying good job. good job nancy

Feedback Thoughts

Patrick beating himself up
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The first article I read and listened to was the commencement speech given by Neil Gaiman Neil Gaiman commencement speech. The article covered a speech given by Neil Gaiman addressing a graduating arts college. One thing that really stood out to me is the process of enjoying it. How enjoying the process, as challenging as it is to truly love what is happening, to love the work that you do. This has been a challenging lesson that I am learning every day of my life. I also really like what he said about underconfidence and to pretend that I am someone who could do what I want to do. I will put that into practice.

The next article I read why rejection hurts so much talked about the evolutionary origin of our self criticism. Some things that I really like about the article is the zero-tolerence policy of self-criticism. I often make myself wrong for things that I have no control over anymore and doing that really makes me negative.