Mar 27, 2017
Becky and Diana talk about the difficulties that ensue when we take critiques and mistakes personally.
- When someone criticizes your work, do you feel like they’re criticizing you?
- It can be hard to separate ourselves from our work, but we must.
- We need to maintain space between who we are and the work do so we can maintain our objectivity.
- We are not the products/ work we create.
- Taking things personally is like donning one heavy coat for every critical comment and carrying them around with us!
- One of the most effective skills to develop for handling critiques and mistakes is to have a short memory. Quarterbacks do not stomp out of the stadium after a bad pass!
- We don’t need to poll others for approval.
- Being professional means accomplishing the role we’ve accepted in our jobs along with their standards and then performing to those standards. We are not the job.
- When we take everything personally, we stop taking risks and stop growing.
- The Learning Zone – where we grow by making mistakes, listening to critiques, and develop the understanding that we’re not failures.
