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I was right with the author on this until they referenced Donald Trump as some sort of role model. Ugh. The final paragraph of TFA is quite relevant advice for
by dantillberg 11y ago
I was right with the author on this until they referenced Donald Trump as some sort of role model. Ugh. The final paragraph of TFA is quite relevant advice for Trump: Don't Brag. And advice for everyone else: Don't Be Like Trump.
That said, I think self-reflection is fantastic. Maybe you feel like you're always running in place? Write down what you've been doing for the past few weeks/months/years, figure out what you think has been valuable or not as valuable, and adjust going forward.
This practice has been super-helpful for me also as a morale boost going into negotiations about compensation. It gives me both moral courage that I have been valuable as well as specific details that I can bring up to demonstrate how I've provided value to the company.
In all of this, though, beware that we tend to undervalue the contributions of others just as much as others undervalue our own contributions. Even for the smartest/most productive of us, our own accomplishments still stand on the shoulders of others'.
- helmett 11y agoyeah..#1 on list: inherit dad's real estate empire
- timrpeterson 11y agoAuthor here. Using Donald trump wasn't as a role model but because you know who he is and that he makes lists.
- afarrell 11y agoYour target audience is still going to read his name, have an intuitive negative feeling, and associate that negative feeling with your article.
- bionsuba 11y agoIn other words, the audience is completely emotional and is unable to see the good traits of someone because they don't like their politics. HN everyone
- afarrell 11y ago> completely emotional Nope, just emotional to varying degrees. If you think that people don't ever have emotional responses to things or are always able to separate those emotional responses from their interpretations of things, I am really curious what life experiences led you to that conclusion. It differs drastically from my interactions with people. I actually suspect we're misinterpreting each other.
- JohnTHaller 11y agoIt's not due to politics. It wouldn't matter of her want running for anything. It's a matter of him having so many negative traits. Generally, you choose someone with mostly positive traits for emulation.
- 50CNT 11y agoThat kind of self-reflection is something I'm struggling with right now. I'll start doing things, forget I accomplished them, realize I'm halfway into the month and then panic profusely when I don't remember what exactly I've done. For example, starting this January I have been working on my front-end and design skills, since I feel weak in that area. I looked for relevant books, got through several ("Design of everyday things", "About Face", "HTML&CSS" by Jon Duckett, and finishing up "CSS Secrets" by Lea Verou), created some very neat things in pure CSS, and I'm getting better at it by the day. Objectively speaking, I've gotten through a lot of things in the last 3 weeks, but it doesn't feel that way. My intuition tells me, quite unhealthily, that I got nothing done. I think the list of accomplishments I'm keeping is the only thing that keeps me sane against the overzealous (and scatterbrained) project manager that lives in my head. I worries me a bit.
- pizza 11y agoMake a list of things of the things on your backburner, so you can walk away from them guilt-free. The walking through a doorway effect ;)