Feedbackmaxxing
Build a feedback system that turns blind spots, honest input, and hard numbers into better actions.
Why feedback matters
Feedbackmaxxing
Action without feedback can keep the same blind spot alive.
Feedback improves more than performance
Five reasons
The 5 reasons feedback matters.
Use all three levels at the same time
The complete feedback system
The 3 levels of feedback: Self, Others, and Facts & Numbers.
Listen to yourself.
Set aside intentional reflection time.
Listen to other people.
Ask people who can reveal your blind spots.
Listen to the facts.
Use results, numbers, and market response.
The three levels work concurrently, so no single voice gets mistaken for the full truth.
Level one uses self feedback
Intentional reflection
Self feedback needs real, intentional time.
Background thinking while you are walking is not the same as sitting down to reflect on purpose.
Intentional reflection creates enough space to notice what daily motion hides.
Protect the time before you need the insight.
Three questions keep reflection useful
Level one
Self feedback: the 3 questions to ask yourself.
What has gone well?
What can be improved?
What should I continue doing?
These questions keep reflection balanced between progress, improvement, and consistency.
Level two uses other people
Blind spots
Other people can see patterns that you cannot see from inside yourself.
Another perspective is useful because it can reveal what your own perspective leaves out.
Choose the source before using the advice
The 3-filter
Feedback from others: the 3-filter for who to ask.
Do they understand your situation?
Have they achieved what you want?
Do they share your values?
Take fitness advice from someone who is fit, not from someone who is rich but unfit.
Level three uses facts and numbers
Hard feedback
Facts & Numbers: the feedback you cannot argue with.
Goals, results, key measures, market response, weight, and income all give feedback you cannot argue away.
Marc would rather make mistakes now
Mistakes as feedback
Make mistakes now instead of later.
Marc teaches that mistakes are not something to avoid altogether. They are feedback to embrace and learn from.
Marc's 2020 lockdown post
Uncomfortable feedback
The criticism that changed how Marc writes.
Marc had reposted a message suggesting that people who left lockdown without a new skill or more income were lazy.
When Marc looked past the sting, he saw that some people were mentally struggling and the message lacked sensitivity.
Marc's intent was to encourage people.
An acquaintance called the post preachy and insensitive.
Supporters told Marc to ignore the criticism.
Marc went deeper, learned about mental health, and changed how he writes.
Direct honest feedback is gold
Create safety first
People need permission to tell you what they really see.
The quality of the answer improves when the person giving it knows honesty is safe.
Three common pitfalls break the system
Feedback mistakes
The 3 pitfalls that break the feedback loop.
You ask the wrong people.
Return to the 3-filter before using the advice.
You take the feedback personally.
Remember that feedback can help you improve even when it feels uncomfortable.
You change nothing afterwards.
Awareness by itself does not improve the result. Adjust the action.
Schedule the feedback loop
An example, not a universal rule
Marc's feedback schedule: daily, weekly, and quarterly.
Marc asks clients, people around him, and mentors for feedback.
Marc uses coaching calls and journaling for reflection.
Marc creates time for his own self reflection.
Marc's team checks the numbers together.
Build a cadence that you can maintain, then schedule it before daily work crowds it out.
Send the message after this session
The feedback exercise
The 3 sample messages: pick the one that fits.
Warm personal
Use this when the relationship is close and you want to explain why their view matters.
Short and direct
Use this when you want a simple request that gets to the question quickly.
Longer email
Use this for a select group when the purpose needs more context and reassurance.
These starting points are adapted from Marc's original messages. Personalise the wording before you send yours.
Find the full wording on the live exercise page, then choose at least three close friends and send your version.
Build your Feedbackmaxxing plan
See what you will build
Your Feedbackmaxxing Plan puts the whole system on one page.
Your plan connects the feedback source to a calendar, an action, and a clear commitment.
A working plan makes the next review easier because you know what changed and what happened.
Awareness is not the finish line
Changed action
The win is not hearing the feedback. The win is changing what you do.
Feedback serves you when it changes the next decision, the next behavior, or the next result.
The recap
Feedbackmaxxing
The 6 takeaways from this playbook.
Feedback points out blind spots and helps you learn faster.
Use Self, Others, and Facts & Numbers concurrently.
Self feedback needs intentional time and three clear questions.
Use the 3-filter before accepting advice from another person.
Facts and numbers give hard feedback that you cannot argue with.
Feedback serves you only when the next action changes.
Your AI Implementation Toolkit
Your Feedbackmaxxing Plan
Now turn the lesson into your own feedback system.
This page teaches the framework. The AI Implementation Toolkit implements it with you, one question at a time, until you have your own Feedbackmaxxing Plan.