Why Good Feedback Isn’t Always Good Feedback

I remember my first startup. I remember coming up with the idea. I remember getting excited. Most of all I remember my unwillingness to absorb any negative feedback. I believed that my idea was the best idea and anyone who told me to the contrary was just trying to shoot me down. I’ve grown since then and one of the primary reasons I’ve been able to learn and absorb so much since then, is because I slashed that notion. That’s what this article is about.

Good feedback isn’t always good feedback. I remember many of those humbling conversations. I remember…