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Feedback Strategies

For this week I read week 2 and week 3 articles. The first article I read was  6 Bad Mental Habits That Sabotage Your Success . I felt this article was relevant because I can get into my own thoughts at times. I think I am pretty good at absorbing feedback whether it is positive or negative. The article mentions athletes that have trouble accepting negative feedback but I feel everyone is different. When I played baseball I pitched so I was constantly getting critiqued and I feel that it had prepared me for feedback later in life. One thing I do need to work on is making excuses and that was the top bad habit that sabotage success. The next article I read was  How to Craft Constructive Feedback . I feel like this is an important task to help with writing critiques and any other feedback you may have to give. The best way to do this is to know who you are giving feedback to and what kind of opinions they are looking for. Another big part is listening and really understanding ...

The Slave and the Tricky Lion. Week 3 Story

Check out my new website Here Please check out the story at the website instead of on my blog!!! A slave named Androcles once escaped and fled to the forest. Once he arrived in the forest he heard loud roars and moans coming from behind a large tree. The slave, being meddlesome, decided to investigate the sounds. Upon coming around the tree he saw it was the Lion. With instincts kicking in Androcles decided to run as fast as he could deeper into the forest. After a while Androcles noticed the lion did not chase him at all. Thinking this was odd and being curious natured Androcles decided to go back and check on the lion. When he arrived he noticed the lion had a large thorn in his paw. He walked up to the lion and went to remove the thorn. When he began to remove it he noticed the thorn had just been stuck between the claws of the lion and realized this was a trick! Androcles began to run as fast as he could to try and get away from the lion and finally got into a cave ...