This is a YouTube video titled "HARSH feedback saved my career" featuring Peter Yang sharing a personal story about receiving tough coaching feedback that changed the trajectory of his career. The content is a monologue reflecting on personal growth and leadership lessons learned over a decade.
Would you want to work for me? And he says this thing which everybody says when you shine the mirror in this really uncomfortable place, and he says, but I can't change. That's just who I am. And I said, well, I know that's not true. It's just who you've chosen to be until today. And the reason I know that's not true is because 10 years ago, I sat in your chair and my coach told me I was. Because I had almost the identical problems of being impatient and not realizing, like, I was pushing my team away, not drawing them closer. I wasn't, like, motivating them through this. I was demotivating them. I tell that story because it was very real. It was. And I am so grateful that I had a coach who was brave enough to be like, you gotta stop. Like, that is. You don't see it, but everybody else does. And so I guess the origin story of what I. Why I do what I do today, because I heard that changed the trajectory of my career, that conversation. And that same person 10 years later still writes to me from time to time and be like, I still think about that conversation. And I changed the trajectory of his career.