Wharton psychologist Adam Grant: Ask for advice, not feedback, to get better results
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Ashton Jackson
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Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant explains that asking for feedback often yields unhelpful, sugar-coated responses because people fear bruising egos. Instead, highly successful people ask for advice, which invites more honest, actionable coaching. The key difference is that feedback focuses on past performance evaluation, while advice looks forward to future improvement.
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· 3 pulledThe best way to get people to coach you is, instead of asking for feedback, you seek advice.
Asking someone for feedback typically goes one of two ways... You could get some helpful takeaways, or the other person may tread too carefully to tell you anything useful, scared of bruising your ego.
The latter is more common than most people think.
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