Mythology & Folklore - MLLL 3043

 Giving constructive feedback and not just praise is definitely a hard thing to accomplish. I think it is partly to do with how society has become with PC culture, so that we cant criticize others. And as was mentioned in the assignment description that it is emotionally difficult to put just the right amount of praise & critique.   In the article Messages that help kids grow , they talk about replacing simple praises with the reasoning behind why we are praising. This helps kids understand why they succeeded in a task and what process they can use to succeed in the future. The Article Giving Bad Feedback Without Being a Jerk , talks about the aforementioned delicacy of giving feedback, especially if its negative. When you give positive feedback to someone they often discard it as being insincere, and if you give to much positive feedback they might gloss over the negatives because you didn't focus on them. Some helpful tips to have people better receive your criticism is ...

     Feedback is something that everyone has a difficult time with, some have an even harder time with it. I would say I have a harder time with it than most. On things that I know how to do like academic work, programming, video games I have an easy time with because it comes natural to me. But for things like social relationships, I struggle at so I don't do it, essentially shutting my self away, which only serves to make the situation worse. This defense mechanism is something I try to work to overcome.       The article Why Rejection Hurts  talks about the need to eliminate self criticism as it only furthers the hurt created by rejection. Also, most rejections aren't in spite of you personally, they are just by chance or because the puzzle pieces didn't fall into place correctly. You can overcome this rejection by reaffirming to your self of the quality traits and skills that you do have.      Something else we commonly do when ...