One of the problems in academia is that ALL of our evaluations focus on what we did wrong. Grant reviews: Here is what you did wrong. Paper reviews: Here is why it isn't good enough. Teaching reviewers: This is what I wanted to learn. Hearing how you suck all the time is hard.
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Replying to @sciencegurlz0
One of my friends got frustrated by getting endless negative feedback on a paper he was revising and asked in desperation if there was anything GOOD about it, and his mentor said “I don’t think positive feedback is very useful”
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Replying to @AstroKatie @sciencegurlz0
I think Tetris offers a useful analogy. The screen shows and focuses you on your accumulated mistakes. For subsequent, reasoned planning and control, it's necessary! But, it's not sufficient... ...absent positive feedback conveying progress, you'll just stop playing.
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