July 23, 2019
Going Against the Grain
There is nothing glamorous about it. And that’s the point.
Articles for category: Growth
July 16, 2019
That whole Soft Skills Thing
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 they are all critical to your success. You need skills to survive.
July 15, 2019
Getting out of Frustrated
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 something goes against what we had hoped it would be in our head. Changing that go to emotion to anything else, no matter what your
July 12, 2019
The Only Person to Believe
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 they want to go next and how they want to get there.
July 11, 2019
Come in Last
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.