A short YouTube monologue by Dr. Natalie Bititere about the importance of being coachable. Using Michael Jordan as an example, the speaker emphasizes asking for feedback, accepting criticism constructively, measuring progress, practicing repeatedly, and acting on feedback. The video closes with a call to subscribe.
Hi, I'm Dr. Natalie Bititere, and today I want us to talk about being coachable. I've recently been learning a lot about Michael Jordan, one of the most famous and successful basketball players in history. When you read about him, a lot of people say something in common that he was very coachable. He would always ask for feedback. No matter how well he was doing, no matter what was going on during the practices, he would always ask, what can I do to improve? How can I be better? I think this is a really useful life skill because feedback is so important to help us to grow, but it's also something that's very difficult to receive. A lot of the time it comes in like criticism or someone is not appreciating the hard work you've put into something. But it's important to be able to feel that sting but still hear what the other person is saying. Yes, sometimes people say negative things just to be negative, but most of the time it's just a different perspective and they're telling you something about your performance or your work or something that you're working on that you haven't thought about or you haven't seen. That way, it might be something you've struggled with, it might be something you didn't even notice you were doing. But it's important to be able to ask people what they think and be ready to hear it. Don't just ask to ask or to seem like, oh, we take feedback in our company, fill out this form. What did you like, what you didn't like? It's important to read it, to hear it, and to see how you can put it to use, put it into action and practice it again. When you're trying to learn something or improve a skill, it's important that you practice it and you take a way of measuring it. How well are you doing? Where did you start and where you're going to end? You have to be able to track it and then get the feedback and then repeat the loop. That's how you improve at something. Feedback is the breakfast of champions. It's very painful to take, but it's super useful, I promise. If you like these videos, please click subscribe. Then you will not miss any.
