> If you don't understand how to employ false smiles as needed, you won't get very far in life.
> If you don't understand how to employ false smiles as needed, you won't get very far in life.
If you find yourself smiling and nodding at the above, however, bear this in mind also: we geeks often err in the direction of undervaluing social status. If you haven't acquired basic skills in areas like networking and office politics, X effort invested there might do more for you than 10X effort invested in further honing your technical skills.
We all have our subjective distances. But if you are a human being, some combinations of the following will be that distance:
1. Sustenance (food, water, housing, money)
2. Community (belonging, love)
3, Self-expression
4. Self-transcendence (altruism)
This is a gross simplification of Maslow, but give me some slack. If you question every person saying "you won't get very far in life" with "how do you measure getting very far", you are not only annoying the other person, but also yourself. Spend that time trying to measure how far you have come.
> Spend that time trying to measure how far you have come.
Formulating into words how far you've come can only happen while you know how far you've come. And while you're in the state of knowing how far you've come, you don't need to repeat to yourself how far this is. You know.