If You’re Not Reflecting, You’re Just Spinning Your Wheels

Reflective practice is important for everybody, every profession, if you want to get better. Because if you're spending all of your time just doing, doing, doing, doing, then you could just be spinning your wheels. You may not actually be doing anything of any real value. It's important to step back and think about what worked, what didn't work, why. And it's a critical part of emotional intelligence, too, to be able to really do some thinking and digging into your own motivations and your own interactions with other people to determine how could this have gone better. Because if we don't start with ourselves, if we're not reflective of ourselves, then we're really just out there judging what other people do. That doesn't help us either.