3Receiving Feedback: Tough Skin, Tough Love, or Tough
The good thing about living the Kind Review life is that our working life is mostly about collaboration. It's about learning to work with people and manage our pride to see the value of a group project. Work is about the melding of minds to make an idea great.
When a creator gets critiqued on their ideas, they have to take control of how they react to it. Feedback starts early in our lives. It begins with stickers in preschool, check marks and smiley faces in grade school, and letter grades in high school. Once we reach our career, that one‐way feedback disappears. We're asked to collaborate with people on a whole new level.
Higher education rarely prepares us for collaborative work. Professors try to set us up with group projects, but we all know how that goes. The education system sets us up to be boastful with our knowledge and competitive with our praise. Perfection is expected on the first product. We rank people based on their ability to hold knowledge. Most teachers give you one‐way feedback with little opportunity to collaborate on a final better product.
The working world is about teaming up to meet a goal. But collaboration can be challenging when our education sets us up as independent agents meant to rule the world. Our feelings can get hurt when our ideas don't sail through review untouched. It's time to check our egos.
Face Your Anxieties
Receiving feedback is hard for many professionals. Anyone who's new ...
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