From the course: How Getting Curious Helps You Achieve Everything

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Three tips for getting valuable feedback

Three tips for getting valuable feedback

- [Interviewer] Do you have some other perspectives on how, when folks are asking for feedback, how could they ask for it in a way so as to actually get it? - [Interviewee] Sure. I think this is a super important question. I actually wrote a whole article on why people lie to you whenever you ask them questions. And they're lying because they're good people and they're trying to be nice. They're trying to give you... Most people don't actually want the answers. You know, most of us, whenever we give a presentation, we walk out of the presentation and we turn to the person with us and we say, "How was that?" Right? That's the generic thing that people say. And then all of us lie when somebody says that to us. And we know that we lie when somebody asks us but we still ask that question because we want them to lie to us. I mean, it's just like a terrible circular thing that happens. But we want to hear that you did…

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