I heard this line in a recent promotion for a new show on HBO, I’m paraphrasing here but it went something like this… There are Expectations for me to be something that I’m not good enough to be. When we question what we are working on or what we are doing, how often do we feel that way? Is that the root of being considered an Impostor or not “good enough” to do this work…
Do you come prepared for meetings? Are you always late to ZOOM calls? Does your work get pushed out from sprint to sprint? Do you ignore the big problems hoping go away? Do you appear with unbridled positivity? Do you take feedback or only seek validation? How you show up, how you present who you are to people, is how you will be seen. If you are always unprepared for meetings, showing up late and…
The results that we show people, they look nice, impressive and blow our minds. But the work to get there, isn’t easy. It most likely required any combination of the following; Repetitive action.Extensive Practice outside of what everyone else does.Fighting back the impostor and feeling like you aren’t good enough.Trying out new ideas that failed initially, everyone laughed at but now you have mastered.Doing your best work but knowing it could be better.Struggling with keeping…
Each time I sit down to write new code. Learn a new API. Write a new Post. Learn a new technology. Anything, whatever it is that is brand new, there is that first 5 minutes of “I have no idea what I’m doing and this is going to be a complete and utter mess” that goes through my head where I try and talk myself out of the work that I should be doing but…
No, it’s not something I wrote. At the last conference I attended (going back to 2016), I attended Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference. On the last day, the last session made the entire conference entirely worthwhile. I would have paid the conference fee to attend this session again. The talk is given by James Whittaker and is such a great talk on the need for creativity in everything we do. I’ve watched some of his other…