The Feedback Loop: Turning Reflection Into Growth

Feedback literally rewires your neural pathways. When you receive critique and view it as a threat, your amygdala — the brain’s emotional alarm system — lights up.

You shift into defense mode: justify, deflect, explain, or shut down. But when you interpret feedback as data, something completely different happens.

Your prefrontal cortex, the rational and creative part of your brain, turns on. You analyze, adapt, and integrate the information into future actions.

That shift — from threat to curiosity — changes everything.