Purpose: Sit with hard feedback long enough to find the part of it that is useful.
When to use: Use this a day after a review, a grade, or a comment that landed hard.
Worksheet prompts
- What was said? Write it as close to word for word as you can.
- How much of your day did this take up?
- Split it up. What part is fair, and what part is not?
- If one small part is useful, what would you do differently next time?
You can keep the useful part and leave the sting behind.