The performance evaluation at work, The parenting advice from your mother-in-law, The lecture by the cop who just pulled you over, Those suddenly too-tight jeans.

Everyone's got feedback for you.

We get feedback every day of our lives, from friends and family, colleagues, customers, and bosses, teachers, doctors, and strangers. We're assessed, coached, and criticized about our performance, personalities and appearance.

We know that feedback is essential for professional development and healthy relationships - but we dread it and even dismiss it. That's because while want to learn and grow, we also want to be accepted just as we are.

Thanks for the Feedbackis the first book to address this tension head on. In it, the world-renowned team behind the Harvard Negotiation Project offer a simple framework and powerful tools, showing us how to take on life's blizzard of comments and advice with curiosity and grace.

'Thanks for the Feedback is a potentially life-changing look at one of the toughest but most important parts of life- receiving feedback. It's a road map to more self-awareness, greater learning, and richer relationships. A tour de force.' Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of Give and Take

'I'll admit it- Thanks for the Feedbackmade me uncomfortable. And that's one reason I liked it so much'. Daniel H. Pink, author of Drive