Who needs feedback?

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

Who needs feedback? Anyone who’s trying to improve that might have blind spots. (Oh, I guess that’s all of us.)

At the CrossFit gym, coaches often help me improve my movement. They highlight opportunities that I hadn’t noticed. Sometimes I’m really surprised by what they see. I never would’ve spotted it on my own.

For my blog, I often ask Trish to take a look before I finalize. Getting another perspective can help me clarify my message. If she doesn’t get it, others probably won’t either.

After a couple of months of learning guitar with video lessons, I went to a music teacher to get some in-person feedback. He gave me some great tips to avoid going down dead ends, gave me some drills to develop my skills and answered lots of questions about where I should focus.

Where do you get your feedback?

3 Comments

  1. Pat

    Honestly, your timing is pretty amazing. Thanks for doing this blog.
    Your detailed & well-written tips are very helpful.

    • Jim Chaput

      Thank you for the feedback. I am happy to help.

  2. Duncs

    Feedback for me come in many forms:
    – how I feel on waking
    – video of a move
    – reactions to other people
    – listening or reading other people’s work who I admire feel inspired by and seeing how I shape up. Makes me take stock.

    Thanks Jim you are one of those …