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I regret change, here’s why…

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Describe a risk you took that you do not regret.
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College or Cake

A risk that I took, and I don’t regret, that’s a good question or topic. A risk that I took was walking an old lady across the street. I know it may sound silly, but you never know if one is going to pop you with their umbrella or not. That was a joke. The risk I took was to get into computers or as many would call it “Information Technology” and learn all I possibly could. 

I’ve always played video games, found myself in a computer class in school, and things ramped up when The Matrix came out. It seems like the 90’s was the era of people becoming hackers. And before you ask, no I’m not going to find some way to deposit an obscene amount of money into your bank account. That’s how you get caught.

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I don’t know why you still have the controller, we all know mom loves me more.
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So, with what I mentioned earlier, you would’ve thought I went to a top college, collected good grades, and graduated with top honors. Nope, that didn’t happen. I did try college, and that was attributed to how I was raised. You go to school, get good grades (I didn’t do that, I was terrible at math and English), and before you graduate you find a college or a job. Yeah, I tried college, didn’t know what I wanted to do for a career, found a job, and dropped out.

I worked a warehouse job until I discovered I was sleeping on my untapped potential. Annoying me to find out what it was, I found myself wandering around until people began to advise me in the direction of something with computers. Again, I did have a huge interest in computers, I just didn’t think I could make a career out of it since I played video games most often and didn’t know how to make money off that. Shout out to YouTube for not being around when I wanted to make money with video games.

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Why I don’t regret it is it’s made me superior to my peers. They all bow to my greatness! No, that was a bad joke. The subjects I have learned up to this point have led me to change my way of thinking. I went from a panic mindset of “What if I lose my job, how am I going to make ends meet” to a more relaxed “You have a particular set of skills”.

I started with learning to program, moved to security, then cloud computing, and over to machine learning, and I have still more to learn. This is exciting because technology is changing every day so there’s something new to learn. Learning is something that most people overlook, not only does it make your brain grow, pause.

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Lifes Direction?

We have cellphones and you still brought a map.
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A Simple Director

Ever so often, we’re asked a question that really makes us stop and think, “Hmm, you know, we’ve never thought of that before, We’ve always been on the go.” Now, that we have paused to stop smelling the digital poo and smell some actual roses, we began to wonder.

What gives us direction in life? An interesting question that goes right up there with “What’s the meaning of life?” Oh, you don’t know the answer? The meaning is simple, you are to live and learn. We found that learning gives us direction.

How much snow can you fit into a ball? Man, that’s heavy.
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Who wants to learn? Learning is boring and for the most part, tough. Learning has a whole process behind it. It can be tedious, overbearing at times, and difficult at times. But what’s that old saying “If it was easy, everyone would be doing it.” Everyone wants to be known for something, but most don’t want to put in the work.

A great benefit to learning is it sets off a chain reaction. Going from one subject to the next sends the learner on a journey, where at moments, there are times of feeling lost, confused, and hopeless. Only to realize what they’ve learned has built their character, shaped their ideas, and raised them to new levels they could never have imagined.

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Now, while we’ve made learning sound magical, and sometimes it is, there is a lot of work that goes into getting that magical “high”. A key to acquiring the “learner mindset” is discipline. It’s difficult to get anywhere without discipline.

This doesn’t mean forcing yourself to read 20 books in one day or take a series of classes. You could do that but the chances of getting overwhelmed and quitting are higher at that point. Setting the goal to learn a little of something each day, and building on that is a great start. You might be the next Albert Einstein, but you’ll know more than you did yesterday and the years to come.