Most People Still (to this day in 2022) Underestimate the Value of Feedback
This isn’t limited to the feedback we receive at work.
I am talking about responsiveness and communication. They’re both forms of simple human feedback.
Throughout life, we meet many people that we have to talk to on a daily basis or spend the majority of our day time with. And those people constantly need feedback.
We all need feedback. We need to know that our shirt somehow got dirty on the way to work or when we accidentally left bits of food in our teeth.
We need to know whether the email that we composed for 45 minutes straight was received by the recipient or not. We need to know whether we performed decently on the task we had to submit ASAP or not that much.
We need to know whether we talked in the right tone of voice or if we perhaps were a little bit aggressive.
Students require feedback to learn different subjects more accurately and to get better marks in the future. In workplaces, feedback from managers is essential for improving performance.
Our partners and family members need feedback so that they know whether the veggie wrap they made was tasty or it was too salty. Kids need feedback from parents to become polite and communicative adults when they grow up.
Feedback helps us grow. It helps us to improve our performance, skills, and behavior. It helps us change and mature.
However, there is a large group of people that still underestimate how important it is to be responsive and communicative to those around them. They often do it deliberately, neglecting its harmful effects.
For example, there are still people on our planet that leave messages unanswered. Those people are colleagues, friends, and even close friends. And they do exist. They think they have decent communication skills to exist in society, and until karma hits them with unresponsive people like them, they’re not gonna change. And perhaps they won’t even change post-karma.
Have you ever noticed how much toxicity the air around those people accumulates? Because I have. The air becomes tense, unavoidable, and that’s just the beginning. Unresponsive and non-communicative relationships of all sorts can lead to massive situational outbursts of negativity that nobody ever expected. They lead to unfounded assumptions and so much more.
I know that not many people are communicative by nature, and I certainly haven’t been one for many, many years. But now that I have learned lessons from that behavior, and now that I still notice similar behaviors around me, I can’t help but talk about this. I must say; it’s the number one thing people need to learn for better cooperation in everyday life.
Simple, plain, human feedback can build stronger relationships, more effective cooperation, better societies, and more powerful countries.
Do you also notice these types of people around you? What are your actions? Let me know.
Stay responsive, folks!
Thanks for reading, and until next time!🫶
