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Great question. I also wonder how much of it is an eye for talent vs just _believing_ in people. My guess is it's a mix. Some of the best managers and mentors
by Ozzie_osman 6y ago
Great question. I also wonder how much of it is an eye for talent vs just _believing_ in people. My guess is it's a mix.
Some of the best managers and mentors I've met have a combination of both an eye for talent but also an ability to truly believe in someone, and sometimes just having someone believe in you can really turn someone's confidence, career, and even life around.
- baby 6y agoI can say that the quality of some of my professors completely affected my strengths today. Orthogonal to how they believed in me (which also plays a role imo). I had a very good analytics professor and to this day I can remember most theorems and I’m still fairly good there. My number theory teachers were shit though, and I’m still being affected by it today.
- charliemil4 6y agoThere are seemingly small moments that stick with us for a lifetime -- if we had more small moments that highlighted our brilliance we'd see some incredible changes in the world. Everyone 'shows up' at some point in their life. Some march to the beat of their own drum and continue to drive from inside, while others are lost because the hesitation in 'am I even doing this right?' was left unanswered. Truthfully, this is the most infuriating thing about social media -- there are true moments of brilliance that they see on a daily basis (when someone choses to sign off, how they replay a certain section of a podcast, following links and references made in other mediums, etc) that we could be highlighting and praising... yet none of them do.