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Can’t Take A
Compliment? What
about Criticism?
By Rifka Schonfeld, Director of S.O.S.
(Strategies For Optimum Success)
Q: Why is it so hard for me to careers.
In their book, Thanks for the
Feedback: The Science and Art of
Receiving Feedback Well (Even
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- ly Delivered, and Frankly, You are
not in the Mood), Stone and Heen
note that when we give feedback,
A: Harvard professors Douglas
Stone and Sheila Heen argue that good at receiving it. Conversely,
we “swim in an ocean of feed- when we receive feedback, we no-
back” throughout our lives. As -
children, we get hundreds of ing it. They wondered what made
grades each year; as young adults,
we hear about our strengths and realized that the key player is not
weaknesses in shidduchim, and the giver, but the receiver. There-
fore, they created a book whose
throughout our personal lives and primary purpose is to give you
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