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Feedback is information from others that can be used to improve 

• Feedback: Information about reactions to a product, a person’s performance of a task, etc. which is used as a basis for improvement.  Oxford Dictionary
• Feedback: Helpful information or criticism that is given to someone to say what can be done to improve a performance, product, etc.   Cambridge Dictionary
• We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.  Bill Gates
• The road to self-insight runs through other people.  David Dunning
• Improvement, Growth,  Learning,  Observation,  Criticism

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Feedback is the breakfast of champions … 

• Feedback is the breakfast of champions. Ken Blanchard
• Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it. Michael J. Gelb

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… along with vision and self-correction 

• Some people have called feedback the breakfast of champions. But it isn’t the breakfast, it’s the lunch. Vision is the breakfast. Self- correction the dinner. Stephen Covey
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Seeking and acting on feedback requires humility and wisdom 

• It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it, and appropriately act on it. Stephen Covey
• Humility,  Wisdom

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If you ask for feedback, be ready and prepared to change 

• Most importantly, if you’re going to ask (for feedback), be ready to change. David Maister
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Get feedback from your customers 

• Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates

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Ask for feedback to help your idea move forwards; not for validation purposes 

• Don’t solicit feedback on your product, idea or your business just for validation purposes. You want to tell the people who can help move your idea forward, but if you’re just looking to your friend, co-worker, husband or wife for validation, be careful. It can stop a lot of multimillion-dollar ideas in their tracks in the beginning. Sara Blakely

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Get diverse feedback

• Ask for feedback from people with diverse backgrounds. Each one will tell you one useful thing. If you’re at the top of the chain, sometimes people won’t give you honest feedback because they’re afraid. In this case, disguise yourself, or get feedback from other sources. Steve Jobs

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Feedback should be objective and kind

• Feedback, when givem well, should not alienate the receiver of the feedback, but should motivate them to perform better.
• Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected. Mahatma Gandhi
• The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical. Brian Tracy
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Sift through criticism to find constructive feedback 

• Dealing with criticism can offer an opportunity to learn. If at all possible, accept the feedback as a gift. It’ll motivate you to do better, change your ways, adjust your communication – or whatever it is that you need to do. Elly Prior
• Sure, it may be rude and mean, but in most criticism, you can find a nugget of gold: honest feedback and a suggestion for improvement. Leo Babauta
• When you’re on the receiving end, let your critic speak their mind. If you debate on the spot, you’ll appear closed and defensive. Better to agree to consider the feedback in the moment. Then you can revisit the conversation with careful thought and perhaps a little critique of your own if warranted. You’ll be taken more seriously when your response is thoroughly contemplated and well-articulated. Kevin Daum
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Don’t turn off the feedback just to avoid the haters 

• There’s a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it’s utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It’s like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm. Rob Manuel

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Negative feedback is better than complete indifference 

• Negative feedback is better than none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me I make a difference. Hugh Prather
• Apathy and indifference

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When we are in touch with the true Self, we’re immune to criticism but responsive to feedback 

• When we are in touch with our universal Self, we are immune to criticism, but responsive to feedback. This means that on the emotional, psychological, and spiritual levels, we feel neither beneath nor superior to anyone else. This doesn’t mean we are arrogant or cocky, but a quiet confidence and dignity radiate from us that result in a fearlessness and readiness to creatively take on any challenge. It also means we are never the victim of self- importance, knowing that all self- importance is a form of self- pity in disguise. Deepak Chopra

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See failure a form of feedback 

• Builders think of success and failure as feedback. They don’t judge either as a complete win or loss. Jerry Porras
• There is no failure. Only feedback.  Pobert Allen
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See mistakes as a form of feedback 

• Accept “mistakes” as feedback, and part of the natural learning process. In fact, try to be imperfect. Intentionally do the first part of your project sloppily: rough draft in crayon, or on a coffee- stained old envelope. Neil Fiore
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Give yourself feedback 

• I think it’s very important to have a feedback loop, where you’re constantly thinking about what you’ve done and how you could be doing it better. I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself. Elon Musk

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When giving feedback, focus on what the person can do something about 

• The whole point of giving feedback is to help the person to improve. Hence, you want to talk about things which the person can do something about, rather than things which are outside of his/her control. Ross Bonander
• We believe we do a better job at giving feedback than we really do. Rick Maurer

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When giving feedback, focus just as much on what you approve of 

• I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. Charles Schwab

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When giving feedback, avoid critical overload 

• Avoid critical overload. Give the other an amount of critical feedback that she or he can handle or understand at that time. Greg Walker

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Depression can be seen as a form of bio-feedback 

• Depression can be seen as a break-down in the service of offering the person an opportunity for a break-through. In this way, depression can be a corrective feedback to a life with little reflection. We only reflect on those things that break down in life. For example, if life is going along smoothly you won’t spend time thinking about the meaning of life. We tend to think deeply about life when something is not working. When we identify a problem, we begin to reflect on what caused the problem and how to fix the problem. If you are disconnected from your deepest feelings and impulses you may still manage to get through life without realizing it. Lara Honos-Webb
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Physical relaxation is a positive form of bio-feedback to the mind 

• Relaxing also quiets the fight-or-flight sympathetic nervous system, since relaxed muscles send feedback to the alarm centers in the brain that all is well. When you’re very relaxed, it’s hard to feel stressed or upset. Rick Hanson
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Stress can be seen as a form of bio-feedback 

• Stress is inner biofeedback, signalling you that frequencies are fighting within your system. The purpose of stress isn’t to hurt you, but to let you know it’s time to go back to the heart and start loving. Sara Paddison
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• Father’s Feedback: The inevitable result when the baby doesn’t appreciate the strained carrots.

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