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Yesterday I got the chance to do again a “mastermind” with a dear friend and what I realized is that I was missing this kind of discussion.

What a mastermind gives you is not the ideas or the concept that you can forever improve.

It gives you another point of view, a way to confront with other people.

I wouldn’t be in any kind of mastermind, this is perfect for me because it’s made of people I trust, but what’s even more important is that it acts as a way to give me a small sprint forward, something I’d be too lazy to do each time.

It’s hard to talk, it’s hard to describe in words the many things that pass through your mind.

But it’s worth every second, because only with vulnerability and talking through what you’ve been through you can open a discussion that might lead to improve the relationship.

Have you ever talked to a friend and said “We should totally get a beer together another time sooner!” and then never made that call?

It might be that you don’t care, but in the other case maybe you’re too busy.
Life, work, life work, and you forget about these small little things.

So you are either faking it or forgetting it.
In the latter case there’s an easy cure: schedule it right away.

Bam. Done.

See the red lines? It’s the part for bycicles (please ignore the cyclist that’s going into the street…).
The black one? For pedestrians.

The first time I walked into this street I wondered why on earth they would “switch” the two lines. It didn’t make sense, and looking at this from the photo it still doesn’t make any sense.

It’s horrible to see and to use. But as always, there’s a reason behind it and in this case the invisible reason is the bus stop.

The bus stop sign is on the left part of the image, near the wall.
The switch is required because otherwise pedestrian walking / waiting for the bus couldn’t get there without crossing with bycicles.

One could say they could put the bycicles on the other side, right? But this way they would risk having the bycicles too near the wall, which is unsafe, and maybe there are even more reasons behind this.

Even the shitties, crappiest result has often a reason behind it that makes it less stupid than it seems.
Even if it’s hard to admit, people think through problems and from time to time it’s not their fault.
They did the best they could do with what they had.

Today was a great day.
After years I finally had the change to confront myself with someone who is way more skilled than me in a tech topic I work on daily.

At first I was scared, and I am partly scared right now, not because of losing work, but because I feel like I need to step up my game.

But after this, I also realized two things

1. I can learn!!! Something I always did by myself, finally I can get some insights from people who know more than me.
2. I have strengths too. The problem is that in these cases we might tend to focus on the weaknesses, but we also have strengths: in my case adaptability and freethinking.

Every time you meet something better than you rejoice 🙂 it’s time to learn!