You are here. That is it, right now you are here. You want to get to some other point, over there. I could draw it out, but everyone’s drawing would be different – “you are here, you want to get to there (maybe you even need to)”. Do you know the steps to take to get there? Do you know what has to be done to get there? Are you willing to invest in each…
When I started with a team that did Agile and I didn’t, I learned Agile. When I started with a team that used TypeScript and I didn’t, I learned TypeScript. This doesn’t mean I didn’t throw in my own suggestions or bowed down to what was there but it did mean I learned the systems that were in place that had made that team successful. Along the way, I made suggestions for them and us…
Admit it, you don’t know it all. No one does. We all want to. But no one does. And that’s why, at any stage of your life, you need a teacher. Someone to learn from. Someone to point out your mistakes. Someone to help you grow and get better. Don’t be a know-it-all, get a teacher and keep learning.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, Three more to the side and you do another lap. If you then jump up and over you might have a better chance. Better yet, we learned a long time ago on a Lion Hunt, that you couldn’t go around it, over it, under it but had to go through it. There are no clear paths, except the one you make for yourself. Follow your own path and don’t…
You have two choices in failure. Accept and move forward. Stew about it, get mad at it, live in it, always relate to it. You can look at those two statements and say – “I’m definitely #1” – but many people are not, #1 is who we want to be, but can’t, #2 is who many are. Take the time to stew about it, take the time to think, not too long though, because you…