Feedback Thoughts: How Feedback Improves Us

Rewiring your Self-Critical Brain

The first article I read was about stamping out the negativity inside your own brain. This feedback is internal feedback - where you give yourself feedback in an effort to improve or encourage yourself. The author was having trouble with meeting their health goals, and developed a system of self congratulation that helped him push through his setbacks. As a perfectionist, I struggle with setbacks caused by my own brain's self-criticism. Using the method of reality based self congratulation could definitely help me acknowledge my achievements so I don't get frustrated and shut down due to not being as perfect as I'd like. I am going to practice this in the coming week and see if it helps me feel better!

Being perfect can lead to being unproductive - it would be better to have fun and feel good than to have all the grass blades be the exact same height! Source: Wikipedia

Why it's so Hard to Hear Negative Feedback

In this article, the author talks about how we feel when we are about to receive negative feedback. I know for me it feels pretty rough, and at times I have found myself scared of feedback in general. Now we are talking about external feedback, and how if we embrace it, we can really improve. By craving improvement rather than current pats on the back, I can use the negative feedback I receive to fuel future success. I went a bit deeper into the previous articles written by the same author that were linked in this one and found them to be interesting as well, definitely worth the read! For me, I am going to focus on improving rather than fearing negative feedback so I can be better.

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Introduction to a Robotics Nerd: Justin

Hi everyone! My name is Justin Kleiber, and I am a senior in Computer Engineering. My passion is robotics, which is the main reason I ended up choosing my major. At OU, I am the president of Sooner Competitive Robotics, which is one of the engineering college's competition teams (hit me up if you want to join!). I also do research on campus, where I mainly work on making a quadcopter fly around without a pilot controlling it. I help a group of high school students in OKC build and program a robot for the FIRST robotics competition, a worldwide high school robotics program. I love robotics, and as such, robots tend to surround my life. A picture I took of the research drone flying in its cage Additionally, I am really competitive and love sports. I've gone to every home OU football game in the four years I have been here, as well as to the Rose Bowl, the Peach Bowl, and two Red River Shootout games. Growing up, I was a huge Virginia Tech fan because my parents went there

Week 7 Story: Comedy Mahabharata

Comedy Mahabharata: Act 4, Scene 3 The scene opens up on a battlefield. The Battle of Kurukshetra is only growing in intensity. In the midst of the scrum, ARJUNA comes out to the front and begins speaking. ARJUNA: The Kauravas have killed my son! It had to be that Jayadratha. He is evil, and has always had it coming to him. We should have killed him back a few scenes ago, but... JAYADRATHA appears from the melee JAYADRATHA: I didn't do anything! It was Duhshasana! He killed your son with a mace not I! ARJUNA: That is irrelevant! You led six warriors against him and killed him! I'm going to kill you now. JAYADRATHA: Oh no. ARJUNA and JAYADRATHA begin running around in circles but nobody intervenes. DRONA steps forward DRONA: Yes, we know what you are wondering - why are we Kauravas stopping Arjuna from killing Jayadratha? Jayadratha is on our side after all. But Jayadratha is insignificant to our plans, so we don't really care if anything happens... ARJUN

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