When you’re a high achiever and the standard you usually strive for is perfection, it’s easy to see negative feedback as painful and try to avoid it at all costs. But every piece of negative feedback you receive contains a nugget of gold you can use to invest in your future success. It’s time you stopped hiding from negative feedback and recognised it for the opportunities it brings: to grow as a person, improve as a lawyer (or whatever your speciality is) and to raise your game to the next level in the next round. Negative feedback is a gift – seek it out, receive it with thanks, learn from it and use it to your advantage.