It's always an iterative process. You learn while performing! The best is just another iteration in all of the other iterations you perform. It is just an event, which will happen, if you're active!
Identity is another cognitive shortcut that helps our brain make otherwise difficult choices in advance, thereby streamlining decision making. Our perception of who we are changes what we do.
Sometimes we have to be hard to ourselves, we have to make extra efforts and believe me the cost of efforts are worth the gain of outcome.
It felt so good, when I noticed two things I was very good at. First was giving up and second was the fear of doing things. And then a sudden wink (a not that creepy one), I thought why not combine these two. I gave up on fear of doing the things I wanted. May be that’s why I’m writing funny and boring stuff today. And really, this so called fear is stopping a majority of gentlemen and ladies from what they really want to pursue.
Know your reasons, even if it’s based on future outcomes. Knowing them, will make you put your efforts every day. It’s called perseverance, quoting Wikipedia for it, your actions despite the difficulty or delay in achieving success.
This boring article is an excerpt from my not that boring book talk on Becoming Steve Jobs, given while I was working in TCS.
There's no point asking that, is there?
For Every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.
Making a successful decision is precisely, to choose and to believe that it all work out Great.