There is nothing glamorous about it. And that’s the point.
I enjoy reading the Gaping Void – it’s a great mix of word and art that drives the point home, all day, every day. But their recent article on Soft Skills – re-ignited that argument that has always been raging inside of me – Soft skills, hard, skills, medium-baked skills, school educated skills, street skills, etc, etc. They are all skills, you don’t need to differentiate them, it’s time to move on and understand that…
The easiest thing to have happen to us is to get frustrated. We try something, we mess up, we get frustrated. We put all our our time into making something perfect and the last piece breaks, we get frustrated. We write all this incredible code only to be hit with one final brick wall that is insurmountable, we get frustrated. Getting frustrated is easy, it’s the go to emotion, the first emotion we feel when…
If you can’t believe in you, then who will? It doesn’t mean you need to be perfect. It doesn’t mean you need to win every day. It doesn’t you need to be right all the time. It doesn’t mean you need to have the best looking outfit. Whatever it is that you do have, make sure you believe in it, because that’s you and that’s what we need more of. More people believing in where…
You don’t need to be first at everything. You shouldn’t be. If you are, how do you know what it feels like to struggle and achieve something? How to work for something? How to fight for it? You never will, until you find something you come in last at and have to work your up to.