How do you react when you receive unsolicited and unexpected negative feedback?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you react when you receive unsolicited and unexpected negative feedback? I ignore it. I didn’t ask for it in the first place. 2.3% I get defensive. I explain why the feedback is invalid. 8.7% I sit with it for a while. I have to stew on it before responding or acting. 77.7% I embrace it. I love all kinds of feedback whenever it’s provided. 11.3% Feedback is a gift that must be considered. When receiving unsolicited negative feedback, the overwhelming majority of you try to pause and sit with it before reacting. That’s a wise approach. It gives you time to get out of instinctive and emotional reactive mode. Many times we’ll feel attached when we receive such feedback and it triggers fight or flight mechanisms. By pausing, you get out of the...



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