I have made my routine myself, but in the simplest way: accumulation. The security of knowing myself capable of something better, put postponement in my hands, which in the end is a terrible and suicidal weapon. Hence, my routine has never had character or definition; It has always been provisional, it has always been a precarious course, to follow nothing but the postponement, nothing more than to endure the duty of the day during that period of preparation that I apparently considered essential, before finally launching towards the charge of my destiny. βMario Benedetti, La Tregua
A few moths ago an opportunity arouse in the Development department at the company I work for. It’s been a while since I made the transfer (so these are not news, but history).Β I was given the chance to work with Jedi-level developers again and use great new technologies.
Back on this track, I realized that there’s a lot of new things to learn and other skills to resharp.Β Which reminded something I read a couple of years ago in a novel called La Tregua, from Mario Benedetti. I remember that back then I took that paragraph as a warning to myself. Allow me to share it with you.
Basically,Β if you don’t want to dig your own grave into obsolescence, you must keep learning. It doesn’t matter how smart you think you are, how capable of something better you think you are, refrain yourself from stop learning, avoid postponement at all cost. It is the cornerstone of procrastination, which is the highway to failure (at all levels).
For me, the challenge now is to fit (consistently) chunks of time where I can get sharped in new skills while at the same time not hurting other timeframes where other important things take place.
Well, challenge accepted.
