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pen and paper source: Wikimedia The two articles I read about feedback were  Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback  by Marshall Goldsmith and  Five Reasons to Stop Saying Good job  by Alfie Kohn. Both these articles talked about different things for feedback but both had the same idea of what feedback should be. Both articles sum up that feedback needs to be more than just a response but something that can be learned from. Five Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job talks more in detail on why praised and simple feedback is not great to do and how feedback should be something to learn from. To explain this children are used and it talks about how if feedback that is all just praise is used to a child their whole life then that can cause the child can turn in a "praise junkie" or ruin their sense of interest in doing things and just care for the reward thus only wanting to do stuff with a reward. The other article Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback talks about more on the...

Thumbs up and thumbs down Source:  Pixabay " A Fixed Mindset Could be Holding You Back " The first article I read was "A fixed Mindset Could be Holding You Back" in which it talked about how being focused on one thing and not wanting to explore or come out of your comfort zone can hurt you. People who will mess up on something and complain or feel bad about it instead of learning from their mistake will struggle way more than people who see the mistake and learn from it for future use. Also it talked about how praising a child constantly can actually hurt them more than hep them because then they will eventually feel like they are doing good at what they are doing or in life unless they are praised because they have a fixed mindset of whats good or not. " Seven Ways to Crush Self-Doubt in Creative Work " The second article I read was "Seven Ways to Crush Self-Doubt in Creative Work" which listed seven different ways. These seven ways al...