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What I learned in Software Life... Develop yourself!

In my previous post What I learned in Software Life...People make great teams!  in the same series I mentioned about how peoples' interactions and nurturing is important to success. In this post, I would like to share my thoughts on self-development

Continuous improvement must be a part and parcel of your life - be it professional or personal.

Training is best learning

I completely believe in this. If you can explain a topic to other person, you yourself get command over it. While explaining a concept, you get to look at the topic from different aspects. As a trainer, when you answer questions from audience, you have to be prepared to respond to variety of questions coming from audience. It is a challenging job to satisfactorily answer them. An unexpected case study may come up. This helps make your foundations stronger.

Find similarity of concepts across various fields

Many different fields implement similar concepts whose underlying principles are same. It is very interesting to know and learn this. This is why children are told stories which are imaginary, but with real concepts. E.g. there is lot of similarity in fluid flow and traffic on a road. Understanding behavior of one system will help understand behavior of other system.

Love your work

This is absolutely essential if you want to find pleasure in your work. You can take the whole experience and the result to unexpectedly high level. You also get mental satisfaction that keeps boosting your energy and enthusiasm.

Show interest in multiple subjects

Having interest in more than one subjects gives you multiple benefits. You will not get bored very often. You will always have a topic of interest to work with. Moreover, Key concepts of one field can be ported to another field. E.g. I tried applying some concepts from Ayurveda to developer personalities. Can a historical personality like Mahatma Gandhi tell us something about coding?

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