If you never lose, you never know what to work on. When you lose, you know what to work on next.
As often as I forget, I am just as quickly reminded, that all development is on the fly. You can do all the courses, go through all the reading, and understand what is needed where but at the end of it all, you are always doing development on the fly. You are always learning what needs to be done in the moment and figuring out the approach to get there and make it a success…
The best message to ever receive – “Compiled Successfully” – never changes no matter what language you work in, what code you write or what project you are working on. Your code might not do what it is supposed to do. It might do something odd when deployed. But the first step to happiness and success will always be, that it compiled successfully.
If you are always winning, you’ll never know what to do when you lose. You’ll never know how to help your team when they are faced with that change in paradigm, when things go wrong when people aren’t there when stuff doesn’t line up. You need that feeling of something going wrong, you need that emphasis of something breaking and having to figure your way out, you need that pressure to know you have to…
You can ask yourself the question, or you can ignore it and figure it out later, when it’s too late, when you don’t have time when you’re overburdened. Or you can figure out now, what you need, what will help you, and what elements will you grow. You can figure that out and then, and only then can you start learning, growing and moving forward.