http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/10-reasons-why-youre-lovable/?utm_source=feedly
Beautifully written, and probably applicable to all of us; this is a great mentor of a blog post on seeing the good in ourselves and others. We all have talents and growth to be proud of.
I think we need to recognize the good that God has made us desire to become, and able to become, and able to desire to become.
Friday, May 17, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
What's fun? New stuff or old? Introspection.
I just had an epiphany: the work that's fun involves elements I've done before.
When I was younger, I thought stuff was cool if it was new, different, and innovative--Software, if it provided features I hadn't had. Books and movies, if they looked at ideas with a new angle.
But I forgot that in looking for the new cool stuff, it was always building on the old. Music collections. Photos. Managing filesystems.
My interests have evolved, and so has what I think is interesting and cool.
I used to get through a class in school by relating it to something I already knew and liked. I got through geography and world history in 8th grade because, at the time, I was into role playing and was trying to figure out how to design an imaginary world--with realistic geography and backstories. The class gave me fuel for understanding my fiction. Kind of backward, perhaps? Maybe. But it worked. My interest level rose, and I did well in the class. I found a reason to do well.
Today, I was having trouble getting traction (and interest, frankly) in a new software project at work. Then I realized I needed to plan out what to do next. I started looking at one of the vague requirements our BA told me she was working on refining. I started thinking about different steps to get familiar with the app, and as I did, I noticed I got excited by the idea of looking at the file importers and processors. That was odd--last time I'd done something like that, it hadn't sounded interesting. But I think it sounded more interesting because I've done it before. It's somewhat familiar territory, but also new. These are new files, new formats, with new purposes. It's a chance for discovery, in something I haven't done but where I have some knowledge already.
If the file formats turn out to be binary, I can already tell you I'll lose some steam. But then I'd find something else interesting about the feature/requirement.
When I was younger, I thought stuff was cool if it was new, different, and innovative--Software, if it provided features I hadn't had. Books and movies, if they looked at ideas with a new angle.
But I forgot that in looking for the new cool stuff, it was always building on the old. Music collections. Photos. Managing filesystems.
My interests have evolved, and so has what I think is interesting and cool.
I used to get through a class in school by relating it to something I already knew and liked. I got through geography and world history in 8th grade because, at the time, I was into role playing and was trying to figure out how to design an imaginary world--with realistic geography and backstories. The class gave me fuel for understanding my fiction. Kind of backward, perhaps? Maybe. But it worked. My interest level rose, and I did well in the class. I found a reason to do well.
Today, I was having trouble getting traction (and interest, frankly) in a new software project at work. Then I realized I needed to plan out what to do next. I started looking at one of the vague requirements our BA told me she was working on refining. I started thinking about different steps to get familiar with the app, and as I did, I noticed I got excited by the idea of looking at the file importers and processors. That was odd--last time I'd done something like that, it hadn't sounded interesting. But I think it sounded more interesting because I've done it before. It's somewhat familiar territory, but also new. These are new files, new formats, with new purposes. It's a chance for discovery, in something I haven't done but where I have some knowledge already.
If the file formats turn out to be binary, I can already tell you I'll lose some steam. But then I'd find something else interesting about the feature/requirement.
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