How Gratitude Transforms Your Feedback Experience
Your attitude about feedback often determines its impact. It’s next to impossible to learn from disregarded feedback. On the other hand, when you appreciate and embrace feedback, you can let it teach and motivate you.
Last week, I wrote about how to ask for feedback. Today we focus on gratitude.
I want to tell you how to welcome feedback with open arms (and an open mind). Before you seek to understand and grow from feedback, you need a positive mindset.
?? This is a four-part series about receiving feedback:
Part 2 - Be thankful
Part 3 - Gain understanding
Part 4 - Learn and grow
Be grateful
Feedback is a gift.
I don’t know who said this first, but I completely agree. You appreciate feedback more when you treat it like a gift. And this will help you foster the right mindset to learn and grow from it.
Let’s take a step back and look at what happens when someone gives you feedback:
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Softwareentwicklerin C# .NET
1 个月I'd like to add something, regarding "No one else has said this before so it can’t be right." Sometimes it's the opposite. You think: "No one else has said the opposite to me before so they must be right. So I am bad." But, in fact, they're just criticizing you for what you did this time from their point of view, not what you _always_ do.
Front-End Developer | JavaScript | React | HTML | CSS | Committed to Accessibility, Clean Code & Lifting Others Up
1 个月I believe that nothing should be taken for granted, especially the feedback we receive. Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful article, David!
??? QA Engineer at TextUs | Risk Assessment | Failure is Feedback
1 个月I struggle with the blanket term "be grateful" as it's been used to my detriment. However, I am very grateful when those who are invested in my growth give me helpful feedback! I'm curious. If someone approached me with feedback and I knew they didn't necessarily have good intentions, what is a healthy emotional response to have? This may be beyond the scope of the example given in your post. But, I'm curious if you have thoughts in this direction.