😱halp

I failed. 🙊

I failed often. 🙉

I failed badly. 🙈

working in tech can feel fulfilling

and also terrifying 😳

and our thoughts can be absurd

it's okay.

i can do this.

This seems impossibly hard.

I don’t understand it.

If I can’t understand this now...

I’ll never be able to understand it.

They can write perfect code so easily, and on the first try. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do that.

My code is so awful. Theirs is so much better!

oh my god.

i can't do this.

it's okay.

i can do this.

it's okay.

i can do this.

notice a pattern?

anything short of perfection was a failure.

Well, I still don’t understand this abstraction, but I finally got a handle on that tricky function today!

This seems impossibly hard, I’ll never learn it.

I struggled fixing that bug on my own today, but I wrote the tests for it much faster this time!

I didn’t do it right the first time, I’ll never get it right.

1. All or nothing thinking is a trap.

Look for the shades of grey in between.

I give up.

My intelligence and capabilities were fixed.

How smart and capable I am now are how smart and capable I will always be.

People learn differently.

Learning is not binary.

Carol Dweck

incremental theory of intelligence

growth mindset

fixed mindset

vs

quicker to give up

opportunity to learn

vs

intelligence is static

intelligence can grow

vs

fixed mindset

🙋🏽

growth mindset

🙋🏽

i'll never get there

i'm not there yet

i'll never get there

“If you get the grade not yet, you understand that you’re on a learning curve. It gives you a path into the future.”

tech = constant learning

(with its own learning curve)

effort is.

2. Our intelligence is malleable, just like our mindsets.

Remember the yet.

disheartening

Am I actually getting any better at this?

reflecting in the moment

reflecting after the moment

John Dewey

education theory:

written reflection

journals + notebooks

blogging

and how they lead to your actions.

understanding your assumptions,

your feelings,

3. Looking back is just as important as looking forward.

Celebrate how far you've come.

failures in my own thinking

reflects on successes and failures

recognizes their growth

believes their intelligence can change

self-efficacy

the belief in your own ability to achieve something.

facing failure is a step towards becoming a programmer with

self-efficacy

it's how you pick yourself up from it that matters.

i give up.

💪

thank you!

i can do this.

i give up.

@vaidehijoshi

i can do this.

and you will.

i can do this.