This is Steva Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

This is the second part of my interview with radical candor author Kim Scott.

If you recall, last week we left off talking about what to do when you disagree with feedback that you receive.

I hope you enjoy the rest of the conversation.

And if you

don't, just send along a little feedback, and I'm sure I'll agree. You really have to be willing

to listen, keep your mouth shut, because I can easily imagine getting defensive. Yeah.

If someone were telling me something that I didn't like. And then this business about, if you don't agree, wait a day, I would be spending that

entire day going over their evil, obnoxious criticism in my mind, explaining all the

reasons why they're wrong and I'm right.

And presumably at some point I have to get past that.

That's what you're saying.

And I actually have to say, here's the pieces I agree with.

And let me explain the pieces I don't.

Do I add, what if they're adamant?

Do I have to, do I eventually assume that maybe they are right and this is a blind spot of mine?

Or at some point, do we agree to disagree?

Or do I fire them?

Yeah, yeah.

Well, if, if, if it's hard to fire your peers. So I think that at a certain point,

there was a really good phrase at, I believe it was at Intel, listen, challenge, commit. At some

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