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For this blog, I had to read up on 2 articles about feedback. They were informative and insightful and are a good read. I would recommend them as they are helpful and the information they provide will be useful for future use, especially in college work etc.

The first article I read through was, Five Reasons To Stop Saying "Good Job".

The article lists 5 detailed points in no particular order, about why you should stop saying "good job" and in the long run actually give detailed and well thought out critiques. The five points are:


1: Manipulating Children: This means saying "good job" when unnecessary and is known as "sugar-coated control". In parenting it just makes the child comply and is a short-term fix, instead of talking to them and trying to reason with them, which does apply to other situations like workspaces and schools etc

2: Creating Praise Junkies: This is another interesting point while praising someone or a child, isn't a bad thing, doing it too much can make them reliant on praise and their self-confidence will rely on just praise which is a bad thing.

3: Stealing A Child's Pleasure: This point, the article explains that saying "good job" takes away the pleasure the person gets when they figure something out or accomplish something, it judges a person and makes them feel judged and when they do something, they seek attention and praise and need to be reassured.

4: Losing Intrest:  When reading this part, it's rather interesting, the more we praise people and children for doing something and give them attention, the more they do it but when we shift focus or turn our attention away, they do it less and less because they aren't being reassured nor awarded for their work.

5: Reducing Achievement: This last point is self-explanatory as when we give senseless praise to people it undermines the achievement, we don't talk about what they achieved or discuss anything and throw mindless praise which will make the person keep seeking mindless praise, instead of trying their best and achieving more.

The second article that I read was, How to Give Feedback Without Sounding Like a Jerk.

Again this article is rather self-explanatory as from my experience people can be demeaning and borderline rude but act like they are somehow giving criticisms. The article goes through how to give feedback while also trying to look at the positives and negatives, explain why you are giving feedback, dot act like you are better and try and make the person feel like an equal. Ask if they want it and try and help them implement it 
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