Indian Epics

I read  How to Craft Constructive Feedback  and  How To Give Students Specific Feedback That Actually Helps Them Learn , both of which I found insightful.  The first, a transcription of an infographic, did an incredible job of distilling how feedback should be given in certain situations to provide the most useful kind of response to the person receiving. The idea of having critics and creators syncing up in the same mindset so as to create the most relevant and useful feedback is a fascinating idea that I had never considered before, but now I can't understand why it should be any other way. It seems like any other way would cause the critic to evaluate the creator falsely, whether on purpose or not.  The second was an article that detailed how people should provide feedback to students in the most productive way possible. It describes how feedback, especially for students should be clear and direct, not vague or general. They need to know exactly what i...

The two articles I read for this assignment were  5 Tips For Taking Feedback Like a Champ  and  Recalibrating the Perfectionist Mind , which were both very insightful, and really got me thinking about personal feedback and perfectionism. I would classify myself as a mild perfectionist, whenever I do something, I want it to be perfect. I made a lot of art in high school, and was never really satisfied with it, even when other people thought it was good. The second article I read talked about this, and how perfectionism can be used as a skill rather than a negative trait, by focusing on the positive aspects of what can happen and working towards that, rather than preemptively expecting a negative result even before you have completed an objective, like a test. I hope to be able to use this and other tips in this article to reduce the test anxiety I feel, which will undoubtedly turn into project anxiety when I enter the workforce.  I can acknowledge that I can be se...