Epics of India

How to Provide Great Feedback When You're Not in Charge This article explains that there is 3 different types of feedback: appreciation, advice, and evaluation. I didn't know this but it makes sense. You should give appreciation when you want to create motivation or give appraisal for someones work. Use advice when you want someone to change or keep a certain behavior to create better work. Finally, evaluation is used when determining what someones work is like compared to others. Evaluation can be the hardest type of feedback to give, in my opinion,  because a lot of the time people end up feeling criticized and get their feelings hurt if you give them an evaluation that they don't like or agree with. As the article mentioned, a professor giving a student an A on a paper may make that student feel really good about themselves, but if that professor gives a C then the student is going to feel bad about their work. When giving evaluation feedback, I think it is super import...

Why rejection hurts so much - and what to do about it , written by Guy Winch. This article provides good insight on why we instinctively feel so bad about rejection. It turns out, rejection is a response in our body that is related to the pain receptors in our brain. Getting rejected from your tribe or island could've been a death sentence back then, so it made sense for our feelings of rejection to feel like actual pain sometimes. Being hard on oneself is good, but this article points out how more times than not, a person usually overly-criticizes themselves, which can be harmful. Doing things as easy as making a short list about what you're good at or important for can make you feel better. A fixed mindset could be holding you back - here's how to change it , written by Anna Kelsey-Sugg. This is a theory I've heard of a lot in life, because I believe it is something that should be taken seriously. Fixed mindsets seem to be a problem for a lot of people in this era o...