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…you can’t ‘metric’ your way around the fact that feedback is a relationship-based, judgment-laced process.
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Workers who seek out negative feedback – coaching on what they can improve – tend to receive higher performance ratings.
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People do get better when they apply themselves, and people apply themselves when they believe they can get better.
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You shouldn’t stop striving to improve, but accepting what ‘is’ can be an enormous relief.
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Because identity stories are influenced by how we are doing relative to those around us, our peers become the yardsticks we use to gauge how we measure up.
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So, don’t dismiss others’ views of you, but don’t accept them wholesale either.
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Others’ views of you may be incomplete, outdated, unfair, and based on absolutely nothing.
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When we are at our most engaged, most creative, and most energized, we achieve that delicious state of unselfconsciousness called ‘flow’.
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…acknowledge the pattern that everyone already sees, and be clear that you’re trying hard to change.
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We can’t focus on how to improve until we know where we stand.
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