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A Case For Believing In Yourself (Challenge thyself)
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A Case For Believing In Yourself (Challenge thyself)
Reflecting on what happened on my journey thus far I've come to find two statements to be true.
If you seek an easy way, you will have a hard life. If you seek a more challenging way, you will have a more rewarding life.
The only problem is that I should have realized the above statements sooner so my payoff could have came sooner.
For me personally this holds true, I'm now capable of much more than I thought I was since I challenged myself. Coming here to forkheads took me to a path where I developed some intermediate skills in web developement. But i never took it any further than just putting together what was already build for me. When I was a kid I wanted to be a programmer, but I never really challenged myself to go for it up until this year.
I would always tell myself that it was just beyond my level of thinking, making excuses for why I didn't want to do it. It was more fun to "just make art" and get high and relax. Even though I possessed the capacity to follow my dreams I didn't because I never challenged myself. That lead me to drift no where remaining broke and aimless for a half of my twenties.
Even my first job (tech support for websites and servers), months before knowing about it I told myself that I couldn't do it because "I wasn't smart enough". When I finally decided to go for it, I was hired immediately, but the first few months I kept telling myself that it was going to be too difficult for me and that I should give up.
Once I got over that barrier I never looked back and since then I've challenged myself.
And its paid off, I can actually call myself a programmer, to the point where I can setup my own servers, build my own applications and design the user interfaces for them.
If you're ever in a position where your telling yourself that you're not good enough or not <insert something> enough to do something, go against that. Your future self will thank you.
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