The Breakfast of Champions

I have just attended a training which was conducted by our company and it was a very interesting one.  It is all about Career Planning.  One statement that struck me was "Feedback is the Breakfast of Champions".  At some point in the training these words went over my head in circles.  All my life and all my days spent with the people I hate and people that I love I often hear them say things which are unpleasant to me.  These things are comments and suggestions but to me they were nothing but annoying words of criticism and reprimand.  But it was really feedback.  By definition feedback is the process in which part of the output of a system is returned to its input in order to regulate its further output.  I guess this is the technical term for it.  But what about it's spiritual meaning?  I come to think of it that it depends on someone who receives the feedback if he or she considers it being negative or positive.  In Engineering the same law applies, if you have a negative or positive feedback then you can either have a system which is self sustainable or a system which makes itself worse.  Either it amplifies or attenuates.  So it is up to me if I will consider criticism, reprimand, or a feedback to be either a negative one or a positive one.  I must program myself to see feedback as positive in order to have a better spirit and have a self-sustainable and continuously improving life.