FEEDBACK PRACTICE
To Grow Awareness
- Ask 4 friends to name 3 of your strengths and 3 weaknesses with examples where possible
- Notice what feelings or defenses are triggered in you
- Write the things people say about you that you resist, and why
Other Practices That Develop Awareness
Invite Feedback
- Predict a measurable future outcome and compare what actually happens
- Have someone tell you how others speak about you behind your back
- Open the details of your life to the input of a wise mentor
Explore Diverse Perspectives
- Imagine looking at yourself through the eyes of a child, customer or spouse
- Volunteer in a hospice and find out how people close to death see things
- Dialogue with someone whose worldview you find loathsome
- Project yourself years in the future looking back at your present situation
Own Your Quirks
- Imagine yourself giving voice to impulses you normally repress or cover up
- Ask a friend to disclose things that he or she does not trust about you
- Examine something evil and see if you have a version of that in you
- Poke fun at your own failings
Invite Feedback
- Predict a measurable future outcome and compare what actually happens
- Have someone tell you how others speak about you behind your back
- Open the details of your life to the input of a wise mentor
Explore Diverse Perspectives
- Imagine looking at yourself through the eyes of a child, customer or spouse
- Volunteer in a hospice and find out how people close to death see things
- Dialogue with someone whose worldview you find loathsome
- Project yourself years in the future looking back at your present situation
Own Your Quirks
- Imagine yourself giving voice to impulses you normally repress or cover up
- Ask a friend to disclose things that he or she does not trust about you
- Examine something evil and see if you have a version of that in you
- Poke fun at your own failings