Highlighted by Meg Ward
From When You’re Truly Good at Your Job, You Want to Hear the Ways You Suck at It by Leah Fessler
…once worked), my defensiveness about the feedback would have been labeled a “lower-level reaction.” Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio’s foundational philosophy, summarized as “Pain + Reflection = Progress,” suggests that we must work through our defensive amygdala responses (that “fight or flight” feeling) before we can make true progress in any work.