Stories save us in learning, they are what help us understand what to avoid, where to go, and what to do. They save the work of trying everything out on your own. They can be simple or complex, but in the end, the value they provide to what you are doing is what makes adoption simpler. They tear down the barriers to growth by getting through the what-ifs. They can make you smile and relax…
Try it. Just see. It doesn’t matter if you get it right or wrong, just try it and see. Because if you don’t try it, you’re never going to know what could happen and you’re always going to be left wondering what should happen to make to get there.
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.