Robbie Cahill Multimedia Development

  Feedback is a very important part of improving. Not just in work situations, but in order to grow as a human being. One of the articles I found very interesting was Five Reasons to Stop Saying “Good Job!”  .  This article questions what most people would believe. Pointing out that explaining to children why a quiet classroom would function better makes the children kinder and more thoughtful. Lilian Katz, an authority on early childhood education. Make a great point about the negative side-effect of children constantly hearing "Good Job". She stated that "Once attention is withdrawn, many kids won’t touch the activity again." There is also research to back up her claim. Showing that if people are rewarded more for doing something then they tend to lose interest in whatever they had to do. Feedback Source:  Flickr I believe the article  What Kinds of Messages Help Kids Grow?  offers great advice on helping small children with feedback. This article points ...

Feedback is extremely important, not just for a better product but in order to grow as a human being. However it is a strange situation when your most harsh critic is actually yourself. To this day I find that the person who always whispers in the back of my ear that I can't do it is actually myself. Self-doubt is in my mind something that can easily destroy a human being and keep them from reaching their full potential. Feedback Source:  Flickr I found this quote to be very good in describing how I have sometimes felt. "Sometimes I feel like a spider whose web is repeatedly torn down. I plan something and start taking action. Then life happens, and setbacks threaten to sap my energy and enthusiasm." Countless times I have thought of doing something yet I always give up believing I am simply not up for the task. This is something that I need to change about myself. Hopefully now that I have entered college I will become a softer critic.