Good luck Mohamed! There's nothing stopping you :)
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#132Mohamed let me tell you about my little sister. She was the opposite of me in that she hated school. Truly hated it. She said she'd never set foot in school again after graduating high school. But, she wanted to be a police officer, and that required college. So she put herself through school by being a prison guard. My little 5'3" sister running around bossing grown men like it was nothing. She made it through schoo…
>My little 5'3" sister running around bossing grown men like it was nothing.
There's nothing strange or unusual about that.
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#133Welcome Mohamed.
"This place is overwhelmingly full of smart people, and I sometimes feel out of place!"
Don't feel out of place. You may just be suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
The smartest people for me are those who can drop all pretensions and learn as much as they can. You're well on your way.
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#134Mohamed let me tell you about my little sister. She was the opposite of me in that she hated school. Truly hated it. She said she'd never set foot in school again after graduating high school. But, she wanted to be a police officer, and that required college. So she put herself through school by being a prison guard. My little 5'3" sister running around bossing grown men like it was nothing. She made it through schoo…
Thank you. The fear of starting anything worthwhile is enormous. So many insecurities spring up when people decide to act on something. Such things as: am I good enough to do this? What will people think of me? I don't deserve this, and so on.
I am really happy for your sister and the many other people who just push every day to get up, not feel sorry for themselves and make it work. Thank you for the encouraging words.
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#135Mohamed let me tell you about my little sister. She was the opposite of me in that she hated school. Truly hated it. She said she'd never set foot in school again after graduating high school. But, she wanted to be a police officer, and that required college. So she put herself through school by being a prison guard. My little 5'3" sister running around bossing grown men like it was nothing. She made it through schoo…
Great story expect the last part. Where you're sort of implying that all smart people are coders and others that do other types of jobs aren't. I met a lot of people that were a lot smarter than most "startup developers" and it didn't require them to sit in front of a computer most of the day.
I was complementing everyone here when I used the word 'smart', not necessarily in terms of IQ level, but learned a great deal from them as I have been reading relevant startup threads on HN for the past year.
I agree. I consider some of the inmates I deal with day to day very smart when you want to understand their world, and they will be more successful than anyone else when the game is being played on their turf. Sadly, they have other "distractions".
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#136Hey Mohamed!
I doing a coding challenge where I'm building 6 apps in 60 days. Take it one day at a time. The smartest person in the a game isn't always the person who ends up winning. The person who doesn't give up usually wins. You should check out codeschool.com. They have great courses.
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#137Welcome Mohamed. "This place is overwhelmingly full of smart people, and I sometimes feel out of place!" Don't feel out of place. You may just be suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect The smartest people for me are those who can drop all pretensions and learn as much as they can. You're well on your way.
I heard about this effect before....great read. I am absorbing as much as I can!
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#138Hey Mohamed! I doing a coding challenge where I'm building 6 apps in 60 days. Take it one day at a time. The smartest person in the a game isn't always the person who ends up winning. The person who doesn't give up usually wins. You should check out codeschool.com. They have great courses.
Thank you. I'm on Team Treehouse at the moment for Web Dev track. I will check out codeschool too.
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#139"My name is Mohamed, and I am a jail guard!" G'day, Mohamed don't make the mistake of defining yourself by your job. You are much, much more than that. You work (and survive) in a Jail? That now makes you 10x better than most nerds on HN in understanding and handling people. Scan HN and the general press and you can see how badly Startups and their users are hurt by this and you'll realise this is a desirable skill.…
Hey bootload, you are right. I AM more than my job. I just like to throw that in there once in a while. The mistake is people reading and taking this literally, as if I can't do anything else or my numerous life experiences don't amount to anything when starting a Startup.