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Labels help us identify things. When you buy something you use the label to understand what’s inside, how it’s made, where it’s from.

It’s no wonder that we are used to labels not only in a supermarket but in the real life.

As in real life, though, you cannot trust labels. They’re an indication. They might be wrong and depending on which side you’re on, they might be entirely wrong.

People assign labels to us when they don’t understand, to reduce the complexity or to have familiarity. Labels are a way to help the mind cope with information that’s not clear to people. It simplifies the process. 

They can also be an assumption. Afterall we are most likely to understand what we know that what we don’t know. We assume that people work, think, execute like us, that’s a label too. And we base our thoughts around this idea, even if it might be wrong.

One thing I’ve recently learned in my workouts is that the rep number you hit on one day, might not be possible on other days.

Stress, fatigue, sleep deficit and life in general might get in the way. And when you hit that new goal you might’ve had the perfect state of mind and body, whereas now you don’t have it.

This is true outside of fitness too. Each day can be different because of similar problems.

You can set a bar for yourself, a goal to reach, but we should always be aware of the fact that every day is different and we might not have the same conditions we had when we reached the goal the first time.

We might be fooled into thinking that when life is predictable it gets boring.

But predictability has its pros, one of which is the ability to handle chaos, unpredictable things, because you are prepared, ready for them, your mind clean, and you know how to use your time.

This needs to be adaptable, to learn how to handle unpredictable outcomes, but it’s not the predictability that can make something boring, in fact it enhances it because once you know the rules, then it’s time to master the game.

You can be talking about software, or even about yourself, but the question would still matter.

It’s rare to have something perfect, a software that has no flaws, no limits. I’d say almost impossible.

So what do you do? Do you plan to follow up your competitors on the feature they are strong, or empower your customers with the features they love for you?

That’s a common dilemma in software building. Time is finite, and thus we need to choose what to do.

We can’t do it all. But even if we choose to fix the flaws, new will come and it will be a neverending journey.

Balancing this is a matter of understanding where are the major frustrations but also having a deep appreciation of what works for your business. Because if what works got you here, in there is something valuable you shouldn’t forget.a

And the same goes for people. It’s ok to have a growth mindset, but you won’t ever be perfect.

Today I was checking some headline news of a news website and I noticed that an entire block of it was all about people.

Titles like ” imitates her mother, : ‘it never happened before’”.
I get that this is entertainment that titles like these appeal to a specific audience I’m not part of.
On the other hand I continue to wonder: How does knowing, and reading, this let us grow, what does it teach?

There can be things we read that don’t teach us anything, fiction can be often like that, but in this case, I wonder why we do feel the need to read about people we don’t know who we are not friends with, that are barely part of our life, compared to stories of our friends and so on.

Yes, these titles and events about famous people can entertain us, but how much of these articles will stay with us? How much of it will be some kind of useful memory?

Of all the people in the world, I wonder why we keep reaching out to the most distant one, instead of slowly understanding the people around us, each and every day.