When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.

Join UpDots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness.

So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK David Rall.

Yeah, good morning to you, and thank you for listening and choosing to listen to this episode of Join UpDots or this podcast at least because there's there's at least free

podcasts out there that you might have decided to listen to and so listening to this

one really really appreciate it and I don't take that lightly. Last week we had an email

from a lady called Sarah in Wellington, New Zealand. It was about some nasty messages that

I get on almost a daily basis and at the end of it she said

do you think there's a way to convert negative feedback into something constructive

may be a topic for a future episode. So I looked at it and I thought yeah I'm sure

there is and I'm I've always been good at looking at negative stuff and trying to put a spin on it so that I gain from something.

A lot of people don't, they take it as like a personal attack and it's not surprising that they feel that way because I suppose

receiving negative feedback it's it's never easy we don't like to be told that we haven't done as well as we thought we would have done in our

O levels and A levels. That takes you back, don't there? Anyone who remembers O levels and A levels?

You know, it's our first instinct is really to just become defensive or

frustrated or go it's so unfair I worked harder than everybody at that there must be

something wrong with the system I've been through it with

kids however if we shift our mindset which isn't it easy to do we can turn that

negative feedback into a real constructive tool that helps

us grow. And the more we can grow as individuals, the more life will reward us.

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