Dare to Lead

by Brené Brown

If you are not in the arena getting your ass kicked on occasion, I’m not interested in or open to your feedback. There are a million cheap seats in the world today filled with people who will never be brave with their lives but who will spend every ounce of energy they have hurling advice and judgment at those who dare greatly.

consider who the person is when you start taking things they say personally

Simply put, psychological safety makes it possible to give tough feedback and have difficult conversations without the need to tiptoe around the truth.6 In psychologically safe environments, people believe that if they make a mistake others will not penalize or think less of them for it.