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Why Kim Scott thinks you need to ask for feedback

How to Be a Better Human

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Is Radical Candor a Good Thing?

In order for radical candor to work, you have to have a certain optimistic growth mindset. When you neither care nor challenge, that's manipulative insincerity. The biggest problem with obnoxious aggression is that it hurts other people. If you act like a jerk to someone, they go into fight or flight mode and they literally cannot hear you.

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