Feedback You Can Use

I've created, analyzed, and collected feedback from hundreds of thousands of survey responses throughout my career. One lesson stands out:

If you genuinely care about the feedback and intend to act on it, make it very brief and actionable.

For my performance-based activities like keynote speeches, music, presentations, and workshops, these two questions consistently produce the most valuable, actionable insights:

What resonated most?

What would you change to improve it?

Others Have it Worse

It's one thing to acknowledge how incredibly lucky most of us are. If you're reading this, it's likely that you are living a better life than the King of France did a hundred years ago.

But feeling guilty about your physical or emotional pain because others have it worse is like having guilt over the joy you feel because others have it much better than you.

Whatever difficulty that's happening in your life is, it's still the center of your well-being and it's okay to acknowledge it.

Change Your Path With a Simple Question

I'm a fan of simple mental models or simple questions that immediately put things in perspective.

Here's one versatile question that can serve to put you on the right path:

Is what I'm about to decide going to move me closer or further away from the person I aspire to be?