Carl Jung once said:
Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.
Dear devs, here are 5 things I learned from him and I hope they will be helpful for you as well:
1 - Where your fear is, there is your task
This is why the work-life balance and self-care movements help people become losers.
Discomfort is where the opportunity is: Find what you fear and look it in the eyes... otherwise you become mediocre and the rewards are terrible.
Have you ever asked yourself what scares you as a developer?
• Figure out what you fear
• Set challenges to face the fear
As you face more fears, your confidence increases.
2 - The world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you.
- The default path is a nightmare
- It leads devs to live on auto-pilot and get told what to do
That’s why school, college and corporations can’t wait to tell you what you should do.
How to apply it:
• Figure out what you're going to do with your life
• Experiment
• Talk to people outside of your bubble
• Learn from failures and rejection instead of gurus and empty advice
Do the thing you can’t stop thinking about, you're not a robot.
3 - The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness
Most Software Developers are sad but:
- Darkness is a superpower
- Rock bottom is where you find your potential
- Dark times lead to amazing comebacks
How to apply it:
• Ask yourself why
• Let yourself be sad sometimes
• Balance sad times with happy times
• When you feel sad, think of the happy times
"You're not an AI!"
4 - I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become
Psychologists told me I had mental illness. I embraced it.
Until I realized if I was not in control of my thoughts, there was nowhere to go.
How to apply it:
- All situations that happen to you come with a choice.
- Is this event going to empower you or destroy you? You get to decide.
Choose an empowering alternative.
select best-choice from your-life
5 - No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.**
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Devs, Darkness is the way.
- Failure
- Divorce
- Rejection
- Miscarriage
- Bankruptcy
- Getting fired
...are the best things that can happen to you
"we love dark mode :)"
How to apply it:
• Experiment
• Take risks
• Don't be a victim
• Expect things to go wrong
Dear Devs, are you struggling with consistency, focus & discipline?
Are you suffering from issues that no one talks about?
• Stress
• Low self-esteem
• Masturbation
• Obesity