Everytime when I commnicate with different audiences and stakeholders, I try to understand the kind of conversation we are having and communication I should use.

The video discusses effective ways to deal with criticism, emphasizing the importance of categorizing feedback into evaluation, coaching, and appreciation. The speaker, Dami, highlights the emotional challenges of receiving feedback and identifies triggers such as truth, behavior patterns, and identity. To manage these responses, one should acknowledge differing perspectives, listen to constructive feedback, and separate self-worth from criticism. Dami also advises adopting a growth mindset and creating actionable plans to implement feedback effectively.

This chapter teaches us how our emotion triggers. Feelings are created when external stimuli are interpreted and assigned a meaning. This happens quickly and often without our awareness. The meaning we assign to a stimulus generates an emotion, which in turn generates our reaction. Understanding that our emotions come from the meaning we make of thoughts or external input allows us to change our thoughts and choose better responses. This cycle happens millions of times every day and the tricky part is that we are usually only aware of the first stimulus and the emotion, the meaning is typically out of our awareness. The real author of our feelings is not the other person but the meaning we make out of whatever caught our attention.

Our engine comprises of a few part. Body is a components like motherboard, brain is like a hard drives, neurons are like cables, and mind is a pattern of nerve connections in your brain…..