That’s the second thing wrong with formal reviews. It’s too much feedback. It’s overwhelming.” Now he opened his hands wide, in a gesture of a reveal. “If you hear one thing when it happens, you can really hear it and change. If you hear twenty things you get overwhelmed. You’ll probably just work on one or two. In fact, three!” Now he held up three fingers. “You are so worried about your raise, you probably are hardly listening at all, anyway. We get flooded emotionally, and then listening is too hard.”
