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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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 5 Story: Sita is Over You

Sita is Over You After leaving Ravana's hometown in Sri Lanka, Sita was so glad to see one of her favorite people, Rama. She ran toward him and jumped into him with a flying hug, but to her surprise, Rama did not return her embrace. "Rama, is everything okay?" Sita asked. With a dull look in his eyes, Rama replied "No, you have been sleeping with another man - how dare you! I come in here and put myself out here, but you are not loyal to me. How can I move forward in this relationship??" Sita was taken aback - this is not normally how Rama had responded to pressure situations in the past - and with Ravana in the picture, Sita had thought Rama had been a good sport. But now he had cracked. His confidence was shattered, and now he thought she was sleeping with another man! Even though Sita knew she and Ravana had not slept together, she let Rama go on with his tirade. After he ran out of anger, Sita calmly said "So that's how you really feel? That I hav...

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