Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, I'm going to share a simple strategy

for buffering against negative feedback.

More to come on that in a moment, first, let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, so let's talk about negative feedback.

I've talked about this in the past on this podcast, and there are a lot of creative ways

to work with feedback.

I think receiving feedback is incredibly important, and there's something even about the phrasing

negative feedback that isn't that helpful because it can make it seem like if you're receiving

feedback that is not glowing that in some way, that's a bad thing, and I actually think

it's incredibly important for our growth.

And yet, it can be really hard to receive that feedback because it can be painful to

look at things that we, or areas that we have some room for growth, or to have done something

to put ourselves out there to do something that's vulnerable, and then for it not to be

received as well as we would have liked it to be, and yet that is a part of the ongoing

process.

In the past episode, I talked about viewing feedback as an opportunity to spark creative

inspiration for ways to grow rather than sparking self-doubt, and in this episode, I'm

going to talk about another simple strategy that I've sometimes used that can be helpful,

and this is to specifically anticipate what could be said, the feedback that you could

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