You can apply for the job and not get it. You can read all the books and not pass the test. You can take the course and fail. It doesn’t mean you can’t do it? It doesn’t mean you can’t lead your own way? It doesn’t mean you can’t try again. Not being Official doesn’t mean you’re not good enough, it means there’s another path that you’re...
It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter because the paths you took are different. The courses you learned might be different. The time you both put in is different. The what you do with your free time is different. The people you hang out with are different. The how you get to work is different. It’s all different, so the comparisons are invalid – compare to you and move on...
There is too much noise on the hustle, the side-project, the long-game, the short-game, the in-between game, the what matters now, the what you need to learn, the where you need to go, the courses you need to take, the what matters most, the what it all comes down to, the what matters most, the politics that drive us, the lessons we learn, the celebration of failure, the plateau of going nowhere...
No one ever said the game was cut it stone. You MUST do this job before taking that role. You MUST work here before you can work there. You MUST learn this before doing that. You MUST go to this school before applying there. You MUST take this course before you can think of starting that program. The game is yours to play and yours to change the rules on. Change is what make the game better...
It doesn’t matter, what you say or how many times you say it. How often you stand up in front of people to deliver that slick powerpoint that checks all the boxes for how good you can be. It doesn’t matter. Because no one will remember. They will remember how you acted and that’s what matters. Translation: Words are nice, but when not backed up by actions they mean very little...