Feedback Thoughts

A fixed mindset could be holding you back - here's how to change it. shorturl.at/egmHS

Personally for me growing up all throughout school I struggled to get the best grades because to be honest I didn't get the best grades at all so when your always told to try really hard and get the best you can. It can sometimes be disheartening to fall down onto a lower achievement. Funny though because now that I am that bit older I realize its not about just winning. Its OK to make mistakes because that's how you learn, I was making mistakes my whole life and learning from them without even realizing it. For example If you ever learned how to ride a bike, you probably fell off at least once trying to get the grips of it, but its only falling off and learning what not to do that you learned what to do instead. The same principal can be applied anywhere.

In one of my other blogs I posted about a fixed mindset and shared some thoughts on it and what it meant to have a fixed mindset. Some people also believe it could be their fixed mindset that holds them back in achieving stuff in life. They might be aiming to complete the hardest thing without actually taking the learning steps to get there just to fail and be disappointed and question how they lost. The Article I linked above looks into this and its truly quite interesting it is encouraging people who have a more fixed mindset about things to try new things and learn through mistakes which I agree with, I believe its the only way to lean as I already said above. It looks into how the two mindsets fit into everyday jobs and careers. For the most part it doesn't really matter how you work. Either with a fixed or growth mindset, but it does however explain how in the medical field a trainee doctor cant really afford to make mistakes and learn from them when someone is on an operating table. I understand where they are coming from with this but I feel like at the end of the day, a trainee doctor would of been trained enough and would have enough knowledge to adapt a "fixed" mindset to complete the task instead of risking making a mistake.

Why its so hard to hear negative feedback. shorturl.at/joDO6

For my when I was a bit younger say back in 1st year of secondary school I didn't really like to hear negative feedback, I always felt like its was pointless and I had a Its got to be good or I don't want to hear it approach. As I got a bit older say during my Leaving cert getting negative feedback was one of the best thing's you could get as it was wrong anyways so its best so hear whats not correct so you can learn from it and fix it. Its always to best to get more than one opinion on something anyways. Getting negative feed back did help me a lot though. It was only said to help how ever, it would usually be said after I would ask honestly for someones opinion. In this article it says a bit about how you could get anxiety about getting negative feed back and that you know your about to receive it, and how its going to ruin your week. I agree, it would often give me a bit of anxiety when ever I would ask for someones feedback on something I new wasn't going to impress them but I didn't know where to start fixing it. 

I have included a visual image that depicts feed back and criticism. Its showing good and bad which is how it can be in the real world. Always remember you cant please everybody

https://www.trainingjournal.com/articles/features/leadership-how-get-honest-feedback-your-employees