Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
By affirming your own gifts and accomplishments, you build your confidence and increase your ability to build a brighter future.
The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.
The prevailing structures of personal reputation and career advancement mean the biggest rewards often follow the flashiest work, not the best.
Accomplishment is socially judged by ill defined criteria so that one has to rely on others to find out how one is doing.
That's a wonderful thing, because one of the primary qualities of a good performance is honesty.
Honor is the reward of virtue.
Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
The bonds that unite another person to our self exist only in our mind.