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While I don't think you should be downvoted, the reality is that there are a lot of people that think they want open and honest advice or criticism, but will respond very poorly when they actually receive anything of the sort.

This is worsened by many people doing a poor job of providing said feedback, for a myriad of reasons: because they never learned how, because they were never in an environment conducive to doing so, because they flat-out just don't care, etc.

Not to mention, there's also the fact that some pills are just straight-up hard to swallow. I've had to choke down more than a few of those, and it took a long time for me to develop the maturity to do so productively.

An NDA doesn't fix any of these problems.

>>donw+(OP)
Do you think giving and receiving feedback well is a trainable skill? (Some companies pay people to offer courses on the subject to their employees, so I guess they think it is.) If so, should it perhaps be taught in ... Well, it's a general enough skill that I would guess the majority of the population would benefit from it, so in theory it could be taught in high school or college.

>>waterh+ob
> Do you think giving and receiving feedback well is a trainable skill?

Absolutely! I've successfully built and run such training.

Most things are trainable skills. For example, I'll never be able to run as fast as Usain Bolt, not by a country mile. But, if I develop my running skills to their maximum potential, I'll be able to outpace a pretty good chunk of the rest of the population.

Same goes for communications, programming, whatever. You might not have what it takes to be The Best In The World, but most people definitely have the potential to become unreasonably competent at a thing, should they choose to put in the work.