Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

From STIGMA to STRENGTH, Taking Feedback Positively!

16 May 2023 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold shares how he learned to take feedback as a tool for growth rather than personal attack. He reflects on struggling academically and how that shaped his approach to criticism as an entrepreneur.

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I took feedback as like, intense criticism of me as a human being. And remember who you're looking at, right? You're looking at the kid who every day in school was told, you're a 62% student. I was running businesses in grade five and grade seven. I had two employees when I was in grade six, for real, two employees. I had 12 employees when I was 20 years old, I'd go to class and every single class I was getting a D minus. I can show you my transcript. D minus. D, D plus withdrawn. C plus. C plus was like, whoa. So when I was being told by the system for 18 years from kindergarten until the end of university that I was stupid, that I wasn't smart, anytime anyone told me that I could have done better, like that memo could be better or the report could look better or the marketing could be better, I took it intensely personally.