Feedback Is Your Friend

Hey, what's up guys? Good morning and welcome to the Daily Drip with me, Dallas Pruitt. Today I wanted to talk about standard principles, high standards, or high principles. Feedback, better living, better production, better leadership, better overall, everything. After all, feedback is such a crucial part of a growth mindset, living a growth mindset, and growing right within the process.

So, it's also worth addressing because let's face it, not everyone has a solid relationship with feedback, especially constructive. It's important to point out that quality leadership and quality feedback go hand in hand. Leadership of others, leadership of oneself, both done at a high level, include a strong practice of collecting feedback and implementing small improvements based off the data, the information.

The insight. Look, leaders understand that there is always something more that they can and should be doing. It's not even just about more sometimes. Sometimes it's just doing something slightly different, something better. Another quality of high-level leaders is that they allow these. Needed changes and modifications to excite them.

They eventually lean in with excitement because they know what's going to be better on the other end of that scary experience, right? It's not easy to lean into that. They don't resist change. They strive for it. They understand that feedback is a crucial part of becoming better. So, my questions for you today are you allowing feedback to be an important part?

Of your life? Are you allowing it to help you to make wiser decisions in the way you work? In the way you build and the way you lead others and yourself? Are you allowing yourself to become excited about the feedback you are currently receiving?, do you have a system for collecting that feedback or are you just digging your heels further and further into a fixed mentality, thinking that you already have all the answers and that you can do it on your own?

Are you allowing others and yourself to lead you to better action? Sometimes what happens is we fall into this trap of divergence. We want to diverge away or avoid the things we can and should be doing. A lot of the times this divergence or avoidances rooted in fear of making a mistake or fear of the unknown, or fear of giving up control, what you need to understand is that people with a growth mindset don't avoid the unknown.

They lean into it because they have clarity on where they're headed and what's necessary. In the growth mindset, feedback is your friend. It helps you learn and implement better ways of doing things. It helps you to grow. Again, feedback is crucial to growing, and great leaders look to the data. Mistakes are feedback.

Failure is feedback. Feedback is information, period. It's information that helps you make better decisions ongoing. It isn't easy to embrace feedback and seek it out regularly, but this is necessary if you want to grow. If you want to grow, you must strengthen your relationship with feedback. That is today's message.

Today is a loud reminder that it takes humility to seek feedback, and it takes wisdom to understand that feedback, analyze it, and then appropriately change. In accordance with it, give yourself extra time to evaluate outcomes in the future. Hear more and talk less in the future. Keep your ego in check more often in the future by looking to what is being said, not who is saying it.

Look to the data. Not your emotions. No matter how good you think you are as a leader, my goodness, the people around you will have all kinds of ideas for how you can get better. So, for me, the most fundamental thing about leadership is to have the humility continue to get feedback and to try to get better because your job is to try to help everybody else get better, and that again, includes yourself, lead yourself, and lead others.

Hope you're able to grab something of high value today, guys, regarding feedback. It is such a crucial component to growing and becoming the best version of you, growing the best version of your business. Make it an integral part of every day, every week, have a system in place. Have a great day, everybody.

I'll see you guys next time.