Your inner self
Clearly, as of December 30, this is the last post of the year.
While I have many things in my head that I want to talk about, the end of the year brings me a bit reflection, even if it is by force.
While I was on vacation for the first time in a long time, I had time to think about many things. But with the end of the year, people are sending their best to each other and they look back to what has been done, forcing me to think a little bit too, even if my years are an endless continuum that never begins and never ends.
2017 was a year with very good things, like the birth of Amy. And also had very bad things, which I mentioned in previous posts and are not worth repeating. However, for some reason, I think it happens to many of us that the tree often does not let us see the forest. The bad often blocks the many good things we have. It's crazy, but a drop of evil can contaminate a pond of kindness ...
I'm going to mention some things that I've been thinking and posting on my Twitter account, which worked more like a place to drop ideas than anything else, because my number of followers is a shame to even mention.
One thing I thought, based on observing close people but also the hundreds of people who go through ComIT, is that frustration does not come from pressure or false expectations, but from the illusion that we can control the processes and the outcomes. We all think that if we do things right, we will be rewarded by mother fortune. We all think that if we strive we will achieve our objectives. And that is part of our illusion, when reality shows that in processes there are infinite interacting variables, and some over which we have no control, and can influence the outcome. When we understand that, it is that we are more inclined not to be frustrated by uncertainty. But I think it takes time and hits to get used to it.
I think that frustration is key in countless events in our lives. In finishing a course, in getting a job, in forming a family, in feeling valued by our loved ones or by society, etc. I think it's a process to understand your own frustrations and accept them, and learn to live with them. However, there are also incentives when we feel frustrated, and are those small victories that make us see the light in those moments of darkness, and understand the purpose of what we do. And that makes us stronger and brings us closer to that objective of taking frustrations naturally.
On the personal side, at this difficult end of the year, I do not need too many victories to remind me of what I am building. I have a family that I love (in two countries) and I have friends. I don't need more.
Professionally, it was a difficult and beautiful year. A year with unique difficulties, and hard transitions, but these past weeks served us to look a bit at what was achieved with ComIT:
- Countries 3
- Cities in 2017 9
- Students ~ 700
- Graduates ~ 400
- Teachers 19
- Classrooms 15
- Courses 28
- Companies' roundtables 3
- Meetups: 8 (#javascript, #testing & #ux).
- Companies hiring graduates: 90
But this is just numbers. There is something that goes further, that I chatted about with Sole the other day. We talked about those people who sent us emails, text messages, whatsapp, messages by TW, by FB or LinkedIn, telling us that they got jobs ...
Those people that these days bought food for their families on Holidays. They bought gifts for their loved ones, fruit of their efforts. That worked hard to grow, to learn, and to be able to achieve a decent and value-added job that maybe they did not feel able to get before ...
Sometimes it seems that ComIT is an academy, a training center. Many people believe that they can do what we do, and probably they are right. But there is something that perhaps not many have, and it is the passion to help others achieve something. And that passion multiplies. Because this is a chain of help that makes us get 53 emails from graduates volunteering to help in 2018. Because they want to leave something to those who come behind. And maybe all that is not seen when you read our website. But at least I know this. And every bad thing that can happen on the road is more than compensated by all the good that is generated when one leaves the heart in what he does.
Paraphrasing Homer in Lisa's dental plan chapter: "Do it for them"
Happy 2018, and live it with passion
While I have many things in my head that I want to talk about, the end of the year brings me a bit reflection, even if it is by force.
While I was on vacation for the first time in a long time, I had time to think about many things. But with the end of the year, people are sending their best to each other and they look back to what has been done, forcing me to think a little bit too, even if my years are an endless continuum that never begins and never ends.
2017 was a year with very good things, like the birth of Amy. And also had very bad things, which I mentioned in previous posts and are not worth repeating. However, for some reason, I think it happens to many of us that the tree often does not let us see the forest. The bad often blocks the many good things we have. It's crazy, but a drop of evil can contaminate a pond of kindness ...
I'm going to mention some things that I've been thinking and posting on my Twitter account, which worked more like a place to drop ideas than anything else, because my number of followers is a shame to even mention.
One thing I thought, based on observing close people but also the hundreds of people who go through ComIT, is that frustration does not come from pressure or false expectations, but from the illusion that we can control the processes and the outcomes. We all think that if we do things right, we will be rewarded by mother fortune. We all think that if we strive we will achieve our objectives. And that is part of our illusion, when reality shows that in processes there are infinite interacting variables, and some over which we have no control, and can influence the outcome. When we understand that, it is that we are more inclined not to be frustrated by uncertainty. But I think it takes time and hits to get used to it.
I think that frustration is key in countless events in our lives. In finishing a course, in getting a job, in forming a family, in feeling valued by our loved ones or by society, etc. I think it's a process to understand your own frustrations and accept them, and learn to live with them. However, there are also incentives when we feel frustrated, and are those small victories that make us see the light in those moments of darkness, and understand the purpose of what we do. And that makes us stronger and brings us closer to that objective of taking frustrations naturally.
On the personal side, at this difficult end of the year, I do not need too many victories to remind me of what I am building. I have a family that I love (in two countries) and I have friends. I don't need more.
Professionally, it was a difficult and beautiful year. A year with unique difficulties, and hard transitions, but these past weeks served us to look a bit at what was achieved with ComIT:
- Countries 3
- Cities in 2017 9
- Students ~ 700
- Graduates ~ 400
- Teachers 19
- Classrooms 15
- Courses 28
- Companies' roundtables 3
- Meetups: 8 (#javascript, #testing & #ux).
- Companies hiring graduates: 90
But this is just numbers. There is something that goes further, that I chatted about with Sole the other day. We talked about those people who sent us emails, text messages, whatsapp, messages by TW, by FB or LinkedIn, telling us that they got jobs ...
Those people that these days bought food for their families on Holidays. They bought gifts for their loved ones, fruit of their efforts. That worked hard to grow, to learn, and to be able to achieve a decent and value-added job that maybe they did not feel able to get before ...
Sometimes it seems that ComIT is an academy, a training center. Many people believe that they can do what we do, and probably they are right. But there is something that perhaps not many have, and it is the passion to help others achieve something. And that passion multiplies. Because this is a chain of help that makes us get 53 emails from graduates volunteering to help in 2018. Because they want to leave something to those who come behind. And maybe all that is not seen when you read our website. But at least I know this. And every bad thing that can happen on the road is more than compensated by all the good that is generated when one leaves the heart in what he does.
Paraphrasing Homer in Lisa's dental plan chapter: "Do it for them"
Happy 2018, and live it with passion
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