Feedback Thoughts

With the current state of the world, it is so easy for me to fall into some serious self-doubt, disdain, and a negative mindset. I have been extremely critical of myself and my achievements in the last few months and I cannot seem to shake that negativity. This is my last semester of course work so I really want to go out with a bang. Silence the Critical Voices in Your Head and Re-wire Your Self-Critical Brain were the two articles that really stood out to me in terms of motivation and positivity. For feedback, I am really bad at giving critical feedback. I want to be positive to everyone around me and I want to boost people's confidence. But for myself, I am extremely negative. I am critical of my failures and I water-down my success. These two articles really speak to me and I think I need to take more of my own advice. I definitely need help taming my inner critic, as the articles say. I am good at receiving feedback, but sometimes I can be a bit protective over my work, and I fear feedback. It is a very tricky situation, especially since I am a wrestling coach. I have asked my athletes how I can be the best coach for them, and it turns out, I was utterly wrong. I thought that my athletes would want someone who is friendly, approachable, and encouraging. All of my athletes wanted a strict coach who knew when to be friendly, but they wanted someone to be an aggressor sometimes. They were okay with being yelled at when appropriate. Does this make them victims of aggressive coach conditioning? I don't know, but I think it is important to ask students how they want to be taught. Anyways, I look forward to working on our feedback as a class and working on critical skills.

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