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Years ago I completed two Strengths Finder tests, and my top result for both tests were input. I find great vlaue in understanding how others think, prioritize, and what factors led to them to make a decision. When I understand others, I gather more infomation, find point of views that I didn't consider, nor even know to consider. I also find that it can help establish better communication and relationships with others, as I am actively asking for their thoughts. I truly strive to understand how others think. Input also means having strong active listening skills, which is something that I have continued to improve upon in my career. I take great pride in having input as my strength, as I tend to learn something new everyday!
I work best when I have focused on ensuring that my personal habits are supporting of my professional life. When I have slept well, eat a healthy diet, am active, and practice yoga, I am mentally ready to be 100% at my professional life. Knowing that my mental health is key to productivity. 🤓 I am able to think clearer, retain information and focus on the job at hand. At times, when dealines are looking, I find that motivation is very abundant.
Taking a moment to breathe when feeling overwhelmed or anxious, I often feel the flight or fight of flight. I know that when I do not take a moment to complete deep breaths, a moment to walk away and let my thoughts clear, that I often skim read and mis understand what the e-mail or communication message. When I am able to recongize those moments it is key to ensuring that allow myself to fully understand what is being asked of me and reduce a mistake or miscommunication. I also recongnise that I need to slow down, my thoughts, typing and reading so that I can work on not missing little coding mistakes.
Input is a great strength in software development. I believe that my inqusitive nature, and strength of being cooperative, w to wanting to learn something new will drive me to be a better student. I look forward to talking and collaborting with other students, asking them "How'd you do that!" - most everyone enjoys sharing a cool trick, insight or knowledge from an eager learners. Having the strength of Director and Self Confidence will drive me to have confidence in myself when I am struggling and to remember to breathe and to ask for help.
Knowing that once I have confidence in my skills and knowledge, that I am likely to be to confident in what I'm doing, and utulizing that in knowing that asking questions, partnering and googling information is highly important in dev. Knowing that I am a supporting of others and ensuring that everyone is included is very important for me - that will leverage for a more effective team. That also helps me keep coworkers accountable and myself more accountable. Am I where I need to be, is my team members, if not, what needs to be broken down to finish it. Asking for help can be a very vulurnable feeling, when in fact, its couragous.
It was eye opening to watch the YouTube video and see myself as one that likes to fully be an expert. It will be a new learning challenge for me to to let go and allow myself to be a half mastered learner. That will be something that will slow me down while in school and I have learned that does not allow me to save my cognitive resources for mastery skills. I really appreciated Coate's vulnerability around having struggling moments, and being OK with those moments, as that is growth. Struggling is very humbling, but is how we grow and learn. I will have to remember to take those high moments, of great success and achievement and understand that those will be rarer. With my life experience, I have learned in those true flight/fight moments, that it will pass. To breathe, acknowledge & name the anxiety and know that it will pass. To be the best at Turing will take great planning, remembering that I'm a human, and utulizing my resources with good time management.
