<ul><li>You find your dream not by searching for it, but by submitting to what you had always hoped was true.</li><li>The amateur ships her work when she feels inspired; the professional ships her work regardless of her mood.</li><li>If you have something worth saying, you want people to listen because it matters to them.</li></ul>

Key Takeaways From The Book

<ul><li>Believe you already are what you want to be. And then start acting like it.</li><li>Before others will believe what is true about you, you’ll have to believe it yourself.</li><li>Multitasking is a myth. You can either create or react. But you can’t do both. Choose wisely.</li><li>A brand is who you are. But it’s more than that. It’s your truest self. The part people remember.</li></ul>

Noteworthy Ideas: You Are A Writer

Many writers get discouraged while struggling to find their place in the endless sea of emerging writers. Their mistake is that they are waiting for other people to discover them.Don’t wait to be picked. Instead, pick yourself by creating your reader platform and launch yourself into your career as a writer.

Create Your Platform

Before starting your journey as a writer, you should ask yourself “What do I have to share with the world, and what makes me uniquely equipped to deliver this message?” The answers to these questions will help you determine where your readers are, and the medium you can use to reach them.Look at your previous writings and try to figure out what they have in common. Perhaps you are an inquisitive writer - always looking for facts, asking questions, and answering them. Perhaps you see the world from a unique perspective.

Your Message

Every writer needs a platform to showcase their work, and the internet, with all its glamour and ego-centric clutter, is today’s world stage.Just because you are a writer does not mean you should only produce written content. You can also use audio (podcasts) and video as long as you keep providing value to your audience.

Your Stage

<ul>
<li>Gaining Experience: Before having your platform it’s best to learn as much as you can from an authority in your field. You can try guest posting or do some freelancing.</li>
<li>Set the Stage: Once you have an idea, the next step is to build your social presence. You can do it on the side at first. Never lose sight of how your platform will help you in your writing career.</li>
<li>Generating Buzz: Start by participating in forums and social media groups and helping other authors and artists with their work. Professional karma and unique content will start getting people interested in you and what you have to offer.</li>
</ul>

Honing Your Platform In Three Steps

People often associate ”brand” with a fake persona. When they do, it simply means that the brand failed. Your brand should be an extension of you. It will never represent all of who you are. However, it does represent how readers remember you. It is important to feel comfortable in your brand to keep it consistent.

You Are A Brand

When choosing your brand’s name, you have to ask yourself two things: Is this name unique? Is this name memorable? For some people, it can be as simple as using their first and last names. For others, it might be more effective to have a pseudonym.Do your homework. Check if the name you chose is already used, especially in your field. Remember that your name must be the same on all your current and future channels.

The Name Of Your Brand

You might think that an author’s looks are not important for their success as writers. However, your brand is the sum of many factors – looks included. These factors come together to create a voice that readers can trust to deliver books that they love.Choose a style that is suitable for your persona and content. It doesn’t matter if it’s elegant, authoritative, or goofy. What matters is that you stick with it. Get some professional shots and use them across all your platforms.

The Image

The most crucial aspect of your brand as a writer is your voice. This includes the voice you use in your books, your social media posts, your website, interviews, etc.Most writers don’t get to choose their voice. Again, it is important to keep your voice consistent. After all, your voice is the reason why readers keep coming back to you. You can draw inspiration from all your favourite books and movies, but never try to imitate or copy another voice.

The Author's Voice

Once you’ve established your platform, designed your brand, and figured out your niche, it’s time to think about how to get people to come to you. Remember that no matter how relevant and important your writing is, it’s your job to connect people to your content through channels.Become active on Twitter and Facebook and give your readers a chance to sample your brand. Go to conferences and events related to your niche. Write an email newsletter to give your readers a regular update on what is going on in your field and with you.

Your Channels

<ul><li>The professional shows up every day, ready to do the work.</li><li>Do a document search for all uses of “that” and “very”—kill as many of them as possible. These words are rarely needed.</li><li>Reread the piece. Cut as many adverbs as possible. These are words that typically end in -ly (like ‘typically’). </li><li>Look for complex sentences using lots of ‘ands’ and ‘buts’—try simplifying some of them. Reread them and see if the meaning is more clear.</li><li>Destroy weak phrases like ‘I think’ or ‘in my opinion’ that corrupt your argument. Say what needs to be said, or don’t say it at all. </li></ul>

Tips For Powerful Writing

Stop seeking public approval and just write.

Becoming a writer begins with a simple but important belief: You are a writer; you just need to write. In "You Are a Writer," Jeff Goins shares his own story of self-doubt and what it took for him to become a professional writer. He gives you practical steps to improve your writing, get published in magazines, and build a platform that puts you in charge. This book is about what it takes to be a writer in the 21st Century. You will learn the importance of passion and discipline and how to show up every day to do the work. Here's what else you will learn: -How to transition from wanting to be a writer to actually being one -What "good" writing is (and isn't) -How to stop waiting to be picked and finally choose yourself -What it takes to build a platform -Why authors need to brand themselves (and how to do it) -Tips for freelancing, guest blogging, and getting published in magazines -Different ways to network with other writers, artists, and influencers -The importance of blogging and social media and how to use it well to find more readers and fans of your writing "You Are a Writer" will help you fall back in love with writing and build an audience who shares your love. It's about living the dream of a life dedicated to words. AND IT ALL BEGINS WITH YOU. Table of Contents Introduction Part 1: Writing You ARE a Writer: Claiming the Title Writers Write The Myth of Good It Gets Tough Part 2: Getting Read Three Tools Every Writer Needs You Need a Platform Your Brand is You Channels of Connection Part 3: Taking Action Getting Started Before Your First Book When the Pitching Ends What Next?

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Reading & Writing

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Books

Becoming a writer begins with a simple but important belief: You are a writer; you just need to write. In You Are a Writer, Jeff Goins shares his own story of self-doubt and what it took for him to become a professional writer. He gives you practical steps to improve your writing, get published in magazines, and build a platform that puts you in charge.This book is about what it takes to be a writer in the 21st Century. You will learn the importance of passion and discipline and how to show up every day to do the work. Here's what else you will learn: -How to transition from wanting to be a writer to actually being one -What "good" writing is (and isn't) -How to stop waiting to be picked and finally choose yourself -What it takes to build a platform -Why authors need to brand themselves (and how to do it) -Tips for freelancing, guest blogging, and getting published in magazines -Different ways to network with other writers, artists, and influencers -The importance of blogging and social media and how to use it well to find more readers and fans of your writingYou Are a Writer will help you fall back in love with writing and build an audience who shares your love. It's about living the dream of a life dedicated to words.AND IT ALL BEGINS WITH YOU. Table of ContentsIntroductionPart 1: WritingYou ARE a Writer: Claiming the Title Writers Write The Myth of Good It Gets ToughPart 2: Getting ReadThree Tools Every Writer Needs You Need a Platform Your Brand is You Channels of ConnectionPart 3: Taking ActionGetting Started Before Your First Book When the Pitching Ends What Next?

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You Are a Writer (So Start Acting Like One)

Writers may lament the uncertainties of the digital age, as many turn to online markets to distribute their work with no promises of fame or fortune.But when authors are guaranteed a cut of their own book sales, they tend to work harder and get more creative,Some findings on the creative writer's gig economy in extensive Chinese research.

Writing In The Digital Age

Book contracts that give authors a share of sales rather than paying them by output alone through a flat fee also propel them to produce more interesting content.The findings may prompt publishers to consider changing their pay structure in ways that reward writers for originality. Beyond publishing, the research sheds light on effective ways of tying pay to performance to encourage workers to get their creative juices flowing.

New Ways To Get Creative Juices Flowing

In China, e-publishing platforms have become a multibillion-dollar industry, attracting more than 1 million authors and over 300 million readers. Authors tend to produce commercially popular fare, such as romance novels, mysteries, crime fiction, and books about science fiction and martial arts.Some novelists are paid a fixed price, similar to the way that Charles Dickens was paid for each installment of The Pickwick Papers in the 1800s. With this model, authors receive the same payment for their books regardless of how popular the books may become.

Authors On Subscription Model

The researchers discovered that as competition intensified, authors who were paid a fixed price for their work did not appear to change their productivity, whereas those authors who received a cut not only produced more but were more likely to write creatively than those paid a fixed amount.However, because a fixed-price arrangement favours the publishing platform, the site tended to promote those books more aggressively, and in turn, flat-fee books received more views.

The Pay Structure Matters

The most important implication of the research may be for the powerful platforms that act as gatekeepers to the creative content we consume: Without an incentive structure allowing content providers to reap the rewards for their efforts, workers may have low incentives to boost the quantity or novelty of what they create.And if the platforms choose to maximize their own profits by opting for a fixed-price reward system, cutting workers out, they could end up stifling creativity.

Advice for Creative Gatekeepers

It's possible, but creators need more of a stake. A study by Feng Zhu of 10,000 novels in the Chinese e-book market reveals how tying pay to performance can lead to new ideas.

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Business

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Creativity

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

Money, and the issues around money, are notoriously anxiety-provoking, and our coping mechanisms are usually unhealthy  - for example, aggressive avoidance — a more slow-simmering form of agita that merely (and literally) compounded the problem.Money doesn’t just represent safety and security and stability. It is safety and security and stability. It is also unavoidable. This means your feelings about money are along for the ride, too — no matter how much energy you expend trying to escape them.

Money Anxieties

<ul><li>Figure out how you actually feel. Yes, you’re anxious, but what kind of anxiety? When do you feel anxious? Where do you feel anxious?</li><li>﻿Once you become more aware of your anxiety, try to pinpoint the specific financial concerns that it stems from. Then, you can start checking them against reality.</li><li> Money — and anxiety around it — is often integrated into our lives at an early age, before we can even articulate material needs and desires. Therefore, our feelings about it are not necessarily rational to our contemporary lives. </li></ul>

Dealing With Financial Anxiety

The goal isn’t to eradicate money worries entirely. Some amount of anxiety around money is healthy. Then, the challenge is not banishing the anxiety but moderating it — which can require practical, measured action. That could mean looking for a new job, hiring a financial planner, consolidating debt, or asking a friend to sit next to you for moral support (or enforcement) while you finally open the bills you’ve been avoiding.

Some Anxiety Around Money Is Useful

Perhaps the most brutal truth about money anxiety is that money actually is worth worrying about. For all the psychological acrobatics and emotional coping mechanisms, the best solution to financial anxiety is and will always be improving the reality of your finances — which is, of course, significantly easier said than done. You can manage your financial anxiety and discover how childhood trauma shaped your understanding of money, but you can’t opt out of money-related stress, because you can’t opt-out of money.

Money Is Worth Worrying About

How to pay your bills, budget better, and deal with anxiety when money stresses you out, according to experts.

Understand yourself and those around you.

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Psychology

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Money & Investments

Why We’ll Never Get Rid of Our Money Anxieties

We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is news doesn’t make us informed. In fact, the more news we consume the more misinformed we become.News is, by definition, something that doesn’t last. It exists for only a moment before it changes. As news has become easier to distribute and cheaper to produce, the quality has decreased and the quantity has increased, making it nearly impossible to find the signal in the noise.

The News Does Not Keep Us Informed

Rarely do we stop to ask ourselves questions about the media we consume: <ul><li>Is this good for me? </li><li>Is this dense with detailed information? </li><li>Is this important? </li><li>Is this going to stand the test of time? </li><li>﻿Is the person writing someone who is well informed on the issue? </li></ul>Asking those questions makes it clear the news isn’t good for you.

The Media And Our Wellbeing

We’re surrounded by so much information that is of immediate interest to us that we feel overwhelmed by the never-ending pressure of trying to keep up with it all

We used to have to wait to get a newspaper or gossip with people in our town to get our news, but not anymore. Thanks to alerts, texts, and other interruptions, news finds us almost the minute it’s published.

The Problems With The News: Speed

Some people write 12 blog posts a day for major newspapers. It’s nearly impossible to write something thoughtful on one topic, let alone 12. Over a year, this works out to writing 2880 articles (assuming four weeks of vacation). The fluency of the person you’re getting your news from in the subject they’re covering is near zero. As a result, you’re filling your head with surface opinions on isolated topics. Because the costs to produce the news have dropped to almost nothing, there is a lot of competition.

The Problems With The News: Low Cost Of Production

News producers perpetuate a culture of “tune in, don’t miss out, someone knows something you don’t, follow this or you’ll be misinformed, oh wait, look at this!” The time used to consume news comes out of time that could be used for timeless content.Like a drug, the news is addictive. Not only does it alter your mood, but it keeps you wanting more. Once you start consuming news, it’s hard to stop.

The Problems With The News: A Drug -like Addiction

When the news is free, you still need to pay people. If people aren’t paying, advertisers are. And if advertisers are in charge, the incentives change. Page views become the name of the game. More page views mean more revenue. When it comes to page views, the more controversy, the more share-ability, the more enraged you become, the better. For a lot of people who create news , the more page views they get, the more they are compensated. A lot of these ads aren’t just static impressions; they’re also transmitting information about you to the advertisers.

The Problems With The News: Misaligned Incentives

Most of what you read online today is pointless. It’s not important to living a good life. It’s not going to help you make better decisions. It’s not going to help you understand the world. It’s not dense with information. It’s not going to help you develop deep and meaningful connections with the people around you.When all you consume is noise, you don’t realize there is a signal. Your attention is valuable. In fact, your attention is so valuable, it might be the most important thing you have. If you know it’s valuable, why would you consume it on something that is irrelevant tomorrow?

Junk Food For The Mind

The first thing you notice about people who read the news is how misinformed they are. Often, they cherry-pick one piece of information and give it enormous weight in their opinions. You realize that they have a tiny lens into a big and messy issue.You also see that you weren’t as well informed as you thought. The news didn’t make your opinions more rational, it just made you more confident you were right. Rarely do we read things we disagree with. It’s much easier to just put our walls up and tune out. Filtering our own news like this self-reinforces what we already believe.

When You Stop Reading The News

Stepping back from news is hard. We’re afraid of silence, afraid to be alone with our thoughts. That’s why we pull out our phones when we’re waiting in line at a coffee shop or the grocery store. We’re afraid to ask ourselves deep and meaningful questions. We’re afraid to be bored. We’re so afraid, that to avoid it, we’ll literally drive ourselves crazy, consuming pointless information.

News Is The Nothing To Do-Boredom Filler

Few things are as important to your quality of life as your choices about how to spend the precious resource of your free time.

We spend hours consuming news because we want to be informed. The problem is news doesn't make us informed. In fact, the more news we consume the more misinformed we become.

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Personal Development

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Mental Health

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Why You Should Stop Reading News

A website owner can spread their marketing dollars further by prioritising SEO. Some parts of the SEO strategy and implementation can take months, but others can be implemented in a few hours. The easiest SEO improvement is page speed. Google considers the load time in its ranking, meaning that a faster load time for a website to display could benefit its ranking.

Page speed could improve ranking

Page speed refers to the time it takes for your website to display in a viewer's web browser fully. You should aim for a 2-second or less page speed. Google research found that over 53% of people will leave a website that takes longer than three seconds to load. The average speed of sites that rank on the first Google search engine result page (SERP) is 1.65 seconds.

Understanding page speed

Run an initial speed checkYou can run a free test on several services and use the average speed.  Lose the extra weight<ul><li>Compress all images - it should be in kilobytes. </li><li>Choose a lightweight website theme</li><li>Use the AMP framework</li><li>Eliminate unnecessary APIs </li><li>Use a uniform font.</li></ul> Use a content distribution network (CDN)A CDN spread copies of your website's data across different locations in a worldwide delivery network, making it allowing foreign visitors to your website at a fast speed. Enable browser cachingIt pre-loads or stores some of your website's data. Consider hosting changes

How to improve your page speed

Page speed simply refers to the amount of time it takes for your website to fully load and display in a viewer’s web browser. As a rule, you want to aim for a page speed of two seconds or under.

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Technology & The Future

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A self-taught computer programmer started a company and sold it three years later. He started a technical consulting company and placed computer programmers and systems engineers with large commercial and government clients.

It’s harder than you think, but not difficult

It’s easy, but takes time to build relationships. This is a 100% relationship business.&nbsp;<ul><li>Find a prime contractor and supply them with talent. If you have access to an untapped source of talent, contact the companies that are hiring. Most will ignore you, some will eventually respond.</li><li>Source talented people that are willing to work as contractors. Personal friends and family, Facebook Groups, Meetups, community colleges, universities, user groups, etc.</li><li>Put the talent with the company. You can be paid a fee for placement or take a percentage of the bill rate.</li></ul>

How It Works

<ul><li>Incorporate and get some general liability insurance.&nbsp;</li><li>Get template contracts for both the companies you will place people with and the people that will work for, or through, you as contractors.&nbsp;</li><li>Find an attorney and accountant that you can work with.&nbsp;</li><li>Start looking for companies that want to hire, and finding technical staff that can do the work. Put them together.&nbsp;</li><li>Invoice on a regular basis, follow up and don’t be afraid to visit in person to collect.</li></ul>

Actionable Steps

I’ve read many stories about entrepreneurship and making money on Medium, written by people with amazing profiles, and impressively actionable calls to action that take you to nice websites used to…

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Career

How I Became A Millionaire

Not all success measures for companies are financial and they can be changing as companies evolve and mature. As a developer, you would like to think the elegance of your code is what matters the most to your company, but it is likely not.

Understand how business success is measured at your current company

Developers are analytical and understand the importance of backing their findings and solutions with data points. If you think about improving the response time for an application, you think in numbers, obtain current baseline and come up with improvement in Milliseconds. A CEOneeds to first obtain the current baseline and then decide what is the improvement that she needs to achieve. As a developer, think about how this relates to the success metrics of the company.

Leverage data effectively

Delegating effectively means achieving a better outcome for the company. Not every bug has to be fixed by you, not every feature has to be developed by you and not every technical design has to be approved by you. By learning to let go a little bit and also sharing the work and knowledge with your peers, you will stop being the bottleneck and everything will move faster.

Learn to delegate

Some CEOs do better than others in taking risks and being aggressive with their goals, but they all share this common characteristic, to be better than present, regardless of their appetite for risk.Developers and many of us who work in technology share this characteristic too, which is why technology is always advancing and making our lives easier and better. You can bring this characteristic to your day-to-day work; when you see an inefficiency in a system or a process or code, make it your job to improve it.

Be obsessed with continuous improvement

Every good CEO knows that she is not just responsible for the company, but she is also responsible for the employees, too. They want to bring this positive energy which will set the tone for the environment. Someone can be an extrovert without a positive energy or she can be an introvert with a positive energy. This is an important thing to remember as most developers I know tend to be introverts, the quiet ones who would rather keep a low profile

Bring positive energy

The good news is, with any skill in life, the ability to “Think and act like a CEO”is a learned skill that can be obtained through practice.

Think and act like a CEO

According to the Global Developer Population and Demographic Study conducted by Evans Data Corporation, there are over 22 million developers worldwide and this figure is expected to raise to 26…

The one essential skill that will set you apart from other developers

If you’re considering becoming a developer but aren’t sure whether it’s a good idea, here are a few things to think about: <ul><li>There is a demand for developers. The U.S. Bureau of Labour Statistics estimates a 17% rise between 2014 and 2024.</li><li>The work can be varied. As a developer, you can work on a huge range of projects from e-commerce websites to computer games, from mobile apps to artificial intelligence.</li><li>The work is flexible. There is an increasing number of remote developers who work from home or travelling the world.</li></ul>

Consider becoming a developer 

Being a developer requires many skills, and there are two major factors in developing a skill: <ul><li>Effective practice </li><li>Support from senior developers. </li></ul>You need to maximise both of these to help you become the best developer you can be.

How to become a developer

<ul><li>Coding Bootcamps: These are great because they are designed to take you from little or no coding experience to job-ready in 3 months. It means lots of effective practice and tons of help from the developers running the bootcamp.</li><li>Get a Mentor: When you start coding, a mentor could be ideal for checking in on you and keeping you on track. But getting a mentor is hard because it's a lot of extra work for them.</li><li>Get a Job as a Developer: Working as a developer will expose you to the side of development that you'll not see while studying.</li></ul>

How to fast track your developer career

As not everyone can afford to go to a bootcamp or knows someone who’ll mentor them, here's a plan for how to get your first developer job.Web development is the easiest to get into. Requirements that appear often in job adverts will likely be:<ul><li>Front end knowledge: HTML, CSS, and JavaScript</li><li>Ability to create responsive websites</li><li>A portfolio demonstrating your experience and skills</li><li>Understanding of version control</li></ul>

Starting a plan

A strong understanding of HTML and CSS will improve your chances of getting a job.Freecodecamp is a website that teaches you everything to do with Website development. It takes you step by step through mini-lessons.<ul><li>Start with The Responsive Web Design Certification and the Basic HTML and HTML5 and basic CSS sections.</li><li>To improve CSS, complete the Applied Visual Design section up to Create a More Complex Shape Using CSS and HTML, then do all of Responsive Web Design and CSS Flexbox.</li><li>Practice by completing Responsive Web Design Projects.</li></ul>

HTML and CSS

Version control is a system where you can see what you've changed and at what point.<ul><li>To learn how to install Git, create a Github account and work with Git. You could learn this before the Html and CSS design projects. </li><li>Try to do all of your projects in a local editor (like VS Code) and Upload them to Codepen when you’re finished. </li><li>You want to be able to create a Github repository, link that to a local folder, commit work that you’ve done, and push that up to Github.</li></ul>

Version Control

It is the language that allows you to change a static website to an interactive one. To learn Javascript, do the Javascript Algorithms and data structures certification on Freecodecamp. If you work as a web developer, you’ll probably spend most of your time writing Javascript.

JavaScript

You will already have 10 projects — 5 Html and CSS and 5 Javascript. Ensure you've got these all in version control and uploaded to GitHub to show how well you work. You can now go back to the portfolio site that you built and update it. You can then use your new Javascript skills to add interaction to the page.

Building Your Portfolio

You will need a short CV or résumé that will highlight your strengths. Your CV should contain:<ul><li>A brief description about you</li><li>Your education</li><li>Any experience you have</li><li>Top-level list of your skills</li><li>Links to contact you and view your Portfolio page</li></ul>You should also have a portfolio website that could be hosted as a GitHub page. Apply only to jobs where you can meet 70%+ of the requirements.

The Job Search

A lot of developers talk about how awful recruiters are, but make sure to use them.  Start with the large sites like Indeed and Total Jobs, but try to find the smaller job sites, too. If they ask you about jobs that are way above or below your desired job, thank them and decline but remind them of the type of job you are looking for.

Using Recruiters

You probably won’t get an interview and job offer in the first weeks of applying for jobs. This gives you time to improve. Adding extra skills will increase your chances of getting an interview. Some skills to learn:<ul><li>Learn a library: JavaScript libraries can make your life easier. jQuery is a popular library.</li><li>Completing the HTML and CSS lessons from freeCodeCamp.</li><li>Advance Your CSS (optional). The Daily CSS course is excellent if you like the design and style side of front end development.</li><li>Learn how JavaScript works. It helps you to become a much better developer.</li><li>Build projects.</li></ul>

Continued Improvement

If you follow this advice, you stand a better chance of getting an offer.<ul><li>Know your CV </li><li>Know about the company </li><li>Practice your skills </li><li>Be early, polite, and confident </li><li>Ask Questions </li><li>Follow up after the interview </li></ul>

Interviews

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Software Engineering

How to become a developer and get your first job as quickly as possible

Learning in school what you don't want: School is not about teaching, not really. It’s about opening your mind. You will forget most of what you learn at school but it will help me visualize and understand the things that you want to do and the things that you want to avoid.

School and job skills

had to learn math to discover that I hated it, I had to learn to code to discover that my appeal to it wasn’t as strong as my appeal to align pixels. I had to wear a suit to realize that this is not something that I would want to wear everyday. I learned how to manage projects and people to understand that what I really wanted to do is to spend my entire day in Photoshop, listening to Hans Zimmer and Amon Tobin.

<blockquote>The best way to learn is to work for real people, in real companies.</blockquote>The benefit from working and learning at the same time with people who actually make a living out of what you want to do is by orders of magnitude more beneficial than school. Any internship will teach you more about real life work than any class.

The best way to work

<ul><li>During your life, if you’re lucky enough, you will meet people who will help you grow. People who will help you reach what you think was too far, by standing on their shoulders.</li><li>You will not always be working on something that makes you proud, but you will always learn something out of it.</li><li>Be a safety net for the person you want to see evolve. Make him feel impactful and in control of his decisions and projects.</li></ul>

Work relationships

In addition to school courses and learning with pros, learning by yourself will be a great asset in your career. Some may say that it is all you need, especially in our line of work.If you have the passion about something, self teaching should come naturally. If you have fun learning stuff, you are where you’re supposed to be.

Self-teaching

Some may say that learning by yourself is all you need, especially in our line of work. If you have the passion about something, self teaching should come naturally. There will always be more talented people than you.

Self teaching

That’s the beauty of internet, you can network without engaging anybody in the real world. You can build yourself as a designer and build your web presence simply by participating in communities. If you are alone on an island, you have virtually the same chance of being recognized for your work as anybody else.

Networking and design communities

If you ever get the chance to do side projects for real people as a young designer, take the opportunity. It will teach you a lot.If you have the time and if your situation allows it, taking side projects as a freelancer while you have a full-time job is a good way to try it out and see if it’s something for you. Be careful though because you will not see the sunlight a lot.

Freelancing

You will only be able to do that if you actually manage to pay for your internet bill first of course. One benefit to it is that you will choose the project you want. You will work on what makes you happy and what you will be happy to show as a work reference. If you work with the right persons, it will open doors for you.Do it when you are a student, when you’re eager to do over hours and work on various stuff. Yes they will get something for really cheap or even nothing, but as a young designer you will get invaluable experience, you just need to be careful.

Working for free

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