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Star psychologist Adam Grant explains why we need to do away with 'the compliment sandwich'

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Adam Grant explains why we need to do away with 'the compliment sandwich' Plus, the one simple sentence to use instead is "I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them" The phrase comes from a 2013 study conducted by researchers at Stanford ,who were able to increase a student's openness to criticism by at least 40% just by using those 19 words.

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