Asking for Feedback

If you're anything like me, it's not always easy or comfortable to ask for feedback because that means that you're opening yourself up to looking head on at what you worked so hard to do your best at. Call it being a perfectionist. Call it trying too hard. Call it a disconnect with reality. Call it whatever you want. I’ll openly admit that I’m an overachiever always doing too much and being too loud. I’m not good at the in between and I certainly don’t want to be bad at something. So, that leaves shooting for the moon with almost literally everything I do. I’m looking as far into the future as I can. I, quite literally, have detailed budgets and plans drafted that go through 2055…that I look at, edit, and follow. I would say that I’ve lost my mind, but I think I’ve always kind of been like this so that would mean that I never really had it in the first place. Which might be true…. Once again, I digress. But you get the picture, right? When I’m working on the Capitalism for Good project, I’m doing my best to look into the future, to put myself in other people shoes, and to do my absolute best to appear like I have my shiz together when I very clearly don’t because I’m doing so many of these things for the first time (except for the asking people questions part…that piece I’ve been practicing since I could speak). This all brings to my point that I try really hard to balance being open about the fact that I have so much to learn and that I’m often the least experienced and knowledgeable person in the room (both physical and virtual) while presenting that in a prepared and professional way. Now, I’ve had a lot of practice being the least experienced and knowledgeable person in the room. I’m the youngest in my family and spent so much of my early life being just that. Young and playing catch up with everyone in the room. Cue, the questions. If I could just soak up all the knowledge, then I could actually catch up and would eventually not be the least experienced and knowledgeable person in the room.Combine that with some sheer determination and overconfidence and that pretty much sums up who I am as a human. As I grew up, I learned to love sport and practiced being coachable. I might have started out being the least talented person on the team when I began, but then I combined all the all the aspects I outlined above to use being coachable to my advantage. I might not have been the tallest or strongest or fastest athlete, but I could listen and learn with the best of them. Which finally brings me to right now, in this project, and in life, as a human, I try to be an overconfident try hard that is coachable so that I continue to grow. Which, in practice, looks like me asking for feedback, even when I don’t want to face the fact that I fell short even when I tried so hard not to. Feedback is an important part of the process. It’s an important part of evolution. It’s an important part of natural selection. What I’m reading/watching/consuming: Natural Selection by Elin Hilderbrand Purchase the full Collection of Between the Interviews episodes (includes video option) here or at Patreon.com/CapitalismForGood All the ways to find, follow, & support the Capitalism for Good universe: Apple Podcasts (Bittersweet Paradox) | Apple Podcasts (Capitalism for Good) | Apple Podcasts (Capitalism for Green) | Bittersweet Paradox Patreon | Bittersweet Paradox Writing Club | Bluesky (Bittersweet Paradox) | Bluesky (Capitalism for Good) | Capitalism for Good’s Between the Interviews Podcast | Capitalism for Good Patreon | Capitalism for Green Patreon | Capitalism for Green: The Blog | Company Mentions | Email | Facebook | Instagram (Andrea & her 2026 Goal = No New Things, Only New Experiences) | Instagram (Bittersweet Paradox) | Instagram (Capitalism for Good) | Instagram (Capitalism for Green) | Spotify (Bittersweet Paradox) | Spotify (Capitalism for Good) | Spotify (Capitalism for Green) | The Store, by CFG | TikTok | YouTube Apple | Patreon | Email | Instagram | Spotify | TikTok | YouTube Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.