Jennifer Hyman Quotes

Everyone has their opinion, and if no one criticizes, how will I improve my work?

Growing, for leaders, is like oxygen to a deep sea diver. Without learning and growing, leaders die in terms of their effectiveness.

Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.

Like any organizer worth their salt, I'm open to critique, but I won't be bullied or treated badly. I'm an imperfect human, and as such, I have a proclivity to make mistakes. And while I make mistakes, I am not my mistakes.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

My best investment, as cliched as this sounds, is the money I've spent developing myself, via books, workshops and coaching. Leadership begins within, and to have a better career, start by building a better you.

Every time I'd get a critique or some redirection, I'd always just take it very personally. Now I have no problem with it.

I've always been motivated more by negative comments than by positive ones. I know what I do well. Tell me what I don't do well.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

I don't care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

I must say, I am a 10,000-times better director because I am in therapy. I'm serious. I can understand more the actors. I can manipulate them more easily.

I was in a band in Auckland, and I remember they all hated me. They had a big intervention. They said, basically, 'Gin, we think you suck.' I was miserable. I cried and cried. But looking back, that taught me about social skills and how to communicate with musicians.

Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.

It's important for a leader to hear about his blind spots on a regular basis so working on them is periodically top of mind.

Opening up is something I have to learn how to do if I'm going to be in this business.

You have days where you're trying to be your best, and you say something, and you see it being written in three different places and in a way that you didn't mean for it to be interpreted. But you just try to do your best. You kind of just have to let everything else roll off your back.

Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.

I am not afraid to ask for feedback on my work or appearance, and try to never take that advice personally.

If someone feels afraid to tell you honest criticism, then you're never going to improve.

The problem is most people in the world can't take criticism.

Remember that when criticism is difficult to accept, there is probably some truth to it.

I do not take to the field to defend myself from certain criticisms. If I do, in this kind of career, it is because I'm very self-critical.

If I could get better on the field, I could get better in my interviews. I took that approach: if there's something I'm deficient in, whether it be in relationships, whether it be talking to people, just that self-reflection to seek people out who can help me.

I take criticism very positively if it's genuine.

If I can understand criticism, I take it very seriously. But it's a process; it doesn't happen overnight.