I must be honest, one thing that tends to bother me is when someone tells me I'm wrong. I know everyone doesn't want to be wrong and you probably find it's that feeling of irritation that drives you to not be wrong the next time. But man it irritates me. Especially when you're mostly right but something comes up which tends to invalidate your efforts. Like today, I found out that my SQL query that I constructed quite proudly over the past couple of days was correct but inefficient.
I come to realise that my reaction to failure is fairly dramatic not outwardly(I don't flip out) but inwardly - so what happened a few hours ago is still working me up. It's actually pretty silly to be so agitated but when you consider the effort to research and learn, analyse say a new subsystem's implementation and then construct a query to interact with it, bearing in mind you feel confident and proud that you pulled it off, only to find it falls apart in an instant when a different and alternative view is taken on it. That sucks. It's almost liken it to being bitten or being beaten up, not looking where you're going or generally not watching out and almost to the extent of being a little careless.
However, what is apparent is it does highlight the effectiveness of reviews and having an alternative perspective however humiliating and humbling it may be. You essentially learn from it but I'm extremely disappointed by it.
It was interesting because for a while you can't understand how you could've gone so wrong and you try to find out that surely there is a problem in the seeming flaw in your approach but when you think about it - I didn't completely implement it as you might have done.
The skill here I suppose is to understand your reaction and learn from it. But that sucks too.
I think I new project in life, I'm bored of this one.
I come to realise that my reaction to failure is fairly dramatic not outwardly(I don't flip out) but inwardly - so what happened a few hours ago is still working me up. It's actually pretty silly to be so agitated but when you consider the effort to research and learn, analyse say a new subsystem's implementation and then construct a query to interact with it, bearing in mind you feel confident and proud that you pulled it off, only to find it falls apart in an instant when a different and alternative view is taken on it. That sucks. It's almost liken it to being bitten or being beaten up, not looking where you're going or generally not watching out and almost to the extent of being a little careless.
However, what is apparent is it does highlight the effectiveness of reviews and having an alternative perspective however humiliating and humbling it may be. You essentially learn from it but I'm extremely disappointed by it.
It was interesting because for a while you can't understand how you could've gone so wrong and you try to find out that surely there is a problem in the seeming flaw in your approach but when you think about it - I didn't completely implement it as you might have done.
The skill here I suppose is to understand your reaction and learn from it. But that sucks too.
I think I new project in life, I'm bored of this one.