We, as a society and as individuals, are not very good at receiving feedback, criticism, and insight about how we have treated others. Our typical response to feedback is significant defensiveness, vicious counterattacks, avoidance of the issue, gaslighting, and making immediate excuses. The point of feedback is to help us do something better, or to be better and there can be significant positive gains from receiving feedback from someone who you have shared trust with. Demonstrating humility becomes essential in the process of receiving feedback in order for us to move toward accepting and incorporating the feedback we received. Humility means we are willing to grow parts of ourselves, even if we perceive we do not have room to grow. Imagine what could happen if each of us were able to receive feedback with humility and use it to create positive changes instead of using it to reinforce “us versus them”.
