Instead of asking yourself and rehashing ‘how it went’, you might consider asking and uncovering ‘what did we learn’.
Just going over how it went keeps you stuck inside the event…the show, the meeting, the interview, the phone call. Things like “It went badly and here’s why” or “It went well and here’s why” limits the full vision for what transpired. It’s being treated as an isolated event rather than a fluid piece of the overall story.
‘What did we learn’ causes you to gain new perspective, to move forward, to grow from the event into the future. It makes the event an open box rather than a closed, independent occurrence.
Coincidentally it’s also a much more optimistic approach than the simple re-hash of events.
When we ask what we learned as opposed to how it went, we are much more likely to take the deepest parts of how it went with us.
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