Codie Sanchez

And there's a kind of, with that randomness comes, sometimes I think we think these controversies matter more than they do.

They come and go and like nobody remembers them.

But that is not to say there isn't a real usefulness to the feedback that you get.

And one of your jobs, if you're,

One of the tasks that you have to take on if you're someone who's in the public eye is to learn to distinguish between the useful and the not-so-useful critics.

You can't ignore all your critics.

That's the road to disaster.

That's the road to irrelevancy.

You've got to figure out who's giving me real feedback here and who should I listen to?

Because I institutionalize feedback in...

my little audio company, we have everything I do, I read aloud for a group of people and open it up.

Then I have editors and I go through and the editors give me as much feedback as I can handle.

That is true of every single word I write goes through rounds and rounds and rounds of

pretty brutal feedback from my peers.

And then I put it out in the world and I got more feedback, right?

And if I didn't get that, I would be a fraction as effective as I am.

So I see the difference in my first draft and my last draft.

I mean, it's like night and day.

It's not a thing you can explain away or you can't say, well, I'm strong in other respects, but I really have trouble with criticism.

No.