Personal Growth
What I Learned After Doing Everything the “Right” Way and Still Failing
When Doing Everything “Right” Isn’t Enough There’s an uncomfortable moment when you do everything the way you’re supposed to… and still fail. You follow the process, make the “right” decisions, do what you were told would work. And it doesn’t. That kind of failure is different. Because you can’t blame a lack of effort or […]
Unlearning: The Hardest Part of Learning
Unlearning Hurts More Than Learning Unlearning, well… what can I say. For a long time, I thought learning meant adding new things. More information, more ideas, more techniques. But over time, I realized that what was holding me back the most wasn’t what I didn’t know, but everything I thought I knew and no longer […]
Why Failure Feels Worse Than It Actually Is
Why Failure Feels So Heavy Failure often feels worse than it actually is. The short answer? Yes, it does feel worse. Not because the event itself is necessarily that serious, but because our minds amplify its meaning. When something goes wrong, we tend to see it as a sign of incapability rather than as part […]
Why Side Projects Teach More Than Formal Education
What Side Projects Teach That Formal Education Cannot Formal education is designed to give you fundamentals. And that has value. But with everything I have learned over the years, I can say it rarely simulates the real complexity of building something from scratch. In a side project, there are no prepared answers. If something fails, […]