The most successful artists (and people) have made an art of receiving and implementing feedback. But for the rest of us, feedback can be really hard to hear. It can be painful. It can trigger all of our negative beliefs both about our own worth and about the probability of our success.
And feedback can come in a lot of different forms. If you subscribe to the idea:
There is no failure – only feedback*
*(The Leadership Principle that I talk about in “Mindset of a Leader – Part 2”)
Then everything can be taken as feedback, right? So, using the feedback becomes an even bigger opportunity and challenge.
In this class you’ll discover:
- The most effective way to solicit and receive overt feedback
- How to glean feedback from your most challenging experiences
- How to maintain your equilibrium and faith in yourself when receiving negative feedback
- The best ways to interpret feedback, particularly conflicting information
- And how to implement feedback constructively in your life and your art.
Additional Resources for this Class:
- Survey Monkey
- Success Principles: How to Get From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be by Jack Canfield and Janet Switzer
- Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More than IQ by Daniel Goleman
- The Artist’s Way – How to Recover Your Creativity by Julia Cameron
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In the class I list questions to ask yourself to explore the feedback available from a circumstance or event. Here are those questions:
- What could I have done differently to get to a different outcome
- How is this outcome a good thing?
- What, if anything, can I do now to change this outcome?
- What can I do next time to get a different outcome?
- What motivated my response? What beliefs, assumptions, expectations led me to respond/react as I did?
- What could I believe, assume, expect that would lead me to a different response?
- What lessons are here for me – and what are the underlying principles of those lessons that I can apply to other areas of my life?
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A book that validates this topic like no other would be Viktor E Frankle’s, “Man’s Search For Meaning”. We all think we have it hard. He was captive in Auschwitz and Dachau, 2 of the worst Nazi camps in WWII. He discovered and used these techniques while watching people starve to death, be randomly targeted for torture and death or worse, watching family or loved ones suffer torture, sickness or death. I don’t remember the exact quote but he said he discovered that there was a split second between the event and his emotional reaction and that at that moment he realized he couldn’t choose the event but he could choose how he reacted. Within a short period of time, even prison guards began to come to him for advice.
He attributes much of his survival to this ability. Now if he could do it in those circumstances, what’s our excuse?
Oh, yes, Jon, I love that book. In fact, I mention it in my article from December 2008 – Attitude of Gratitude or How to Handle the Hard Stuff:
https://www.risingstarsystems.com/2008/12/attitude-of-gratitude/
“Ignore Everybody”- Hugh MacLeod.
“I would never take my songs to someone and ask them what they think”-Linda Perry.
“An artist’s first duty is to communicate with himself.”-Michel Petrucciani.
This was a fabulous class. I saw how personally I was taking feedback and reacting to a lot of it whether externally or internally, and how my emotional responses held me back. The class taught me how to be dispassionate regarding feedback & criticism and use it to learn from and correct my mistakes, i.e., take it like a warrior instead of wallowing in self-pity. Debra gave us techniques to use when you’re receiving feedback/criticism so you can clearly hear it all, take it in, learn from it and progress forward.