“We have been given very little help and practice in the creative giving and receiving of feedback. We have not faced in any decisive way the fact that others have information about us that we do not have about ourselves, and that our blindness might be healed if we had the courage or ego strength to ask for it. Until we have become experienced in the giving and the receiving of constructive criticism it will remain extraordinarily difficult work.”
–Elizabeth O’Connor, “Dialogue,” Called to Community
It can be so hard to listen to others’ constructive criticism! This is a fascinating topic and we all need to learn the creative giving and receiving of feedback.