tags: #literature #dough #learning-how-to-work #starting-principles Visa has a good theme I've been mulling on and I *think* it's in [[introspect]]. It's about managing your psychology. Paraphrasing, but I think it's basically about how your psychology is your biggest enemy. You will feel disheartened. You will want to give up. My mind goes to that Bourdain quote about wanting to chill, smoke weed, watch movies every day. You must not give in. I look back at a lot of my notes from 2021, mere months after starting work, and it is all despair. How am I supposed to do this for years? I don't know what I am doing. I am floundering. I am panicking. I will be found as a fraud. In my old notes I see phrases like "I need to find a way to be free". (Ok, I might have been a tad melodramatic but you'll forgive me, it was a pandemic.) Today, I'm taking on more challenging and strategic work that is much more critical to the organization. I still often feel like I don't know what I'm doing, but it's less often that it leads to panic. How did that happen? Mainly, I learned that I wasn't going to die if I made a mistake. --- Created: 2024-04-05 Last Modified: 2024-04-05