How to Praise Someone

You talk in the book as much about praise as you do about criticism. One of the things that I found really interesting was the point you made about how you should spend as much time researching giving someone praise as you did preparing to give someone criticism. You can get praise badly wrong and you can praise the wrong person, or even your own work. It's easy for your praise to come off as as patronizing if it doesn't tell them what to do more up next time how to improve.

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