Thoughts about changing, life, and whatever comes to mind.
How can you convey the perception of good work even when the work is invisible? You can’t.
If it’s invisible it’ll stay that way, there’s no way we can show that value if we’re not showing it off.
We can either unveil it or market the benefits. There’s no way around it.You either empower that work with your charm so that it seems like gold entirely, or you allow the people to touch the work, interact with it, see how it’s done and how much time it takes.
No shortcuts.
There will come days when you won’t have something to say, to write, to improve.
Days when there doesn’t seem to be a hope. But there’s always a way.
You can find words, ideas, in each day of your life, but to do that you have to stick with it even if you don’t believe it.
As Stephen King told, to write even when the muse is off.
Because the muse will come.
It happens. You work so much but you seems stuck into a maze. No solution on the horizon to be found.
What to do then? You could continue searching for it, but there’s a fine line between success and failure, between understanding when’s the right time to quit.
That decision is part of your job. And there’s a time to put up the white flag, to accept the fact that you don’t have skills or time to get to a solution in the required time. You need more, but you also need to make it work.
That’s when a wrong solution is fine. You comply with the request, knowing perfectly you still have a work to do, but that work cannot be accomplished so easily.
It’s the MVP concept, applied to real problems.
There’s a gap in our mind.A gap between our expectations and reality, a gap that talks about the way we expect our place in the world to be.
A dear friend of mine talked to me about the fact that he feels useless in his daily job. I didn’t agree at all, knowing his efforts to make things better.
But yet he felt this, this gap, this sensation that we are powerless, useless in front of the situations we live in.
It’s a trick our minds prepare to us. Should we be useful? I think so, but the next question is: Are we able to understand our impact in the world?
My answer is yes, only if we listen to other people.
If we only listen to our mind we will always have a partial vision of what’s happening. We’ll leave out the details and fall for the trap.
Our impact in the world is defined by the response in the world, not by our ideas of it.
There’s nothing more frustrating than hearing “I told you so”, but we should be happy about it because when we hear it we have a chance to learn.
To discouver our flaws, our biases.
Each time we hear an “I told you so” there’s an unknown bias that we have the chance to discover and understand.
Come on, give me the chills 