mindset Archives - Preslav Mihaylov

Growing up as software engineers, we typically spend the first few years of our careers studying various technologies and concepts from the programming area - what a list is, what a hash table is, what's JavaScript, what's HTTP, what is a client-server architecture...

The goal of this venture is for one to accumulate the necessary skills & knowledge to land their first jobs.

But apart from understanding "what" something is, over the years, the preliminary knowledge required to land your first job has expanded to also cover topics which help one not just write software that works, but also write "good code".

Most aspiring software engineers nowadays are advised to read up about the SOLID principles, about what "clean code" is, they're also taught to split up their applications using the MVC "architecture" and have separate models, views and controllers.

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Some time ago, I told you my story of becoming a better player in League of Legends. There was some kind of flaw in my skills and I decided to change that. So I started watching some YouTube videos about becoming a better LoL player. But the key to mastering that game was not in studying all sorts of fancy game mechanics or memorizing the items to buy for each hero. It was in adopting a mindset of always blaming yourself instead of your team for the mistakes you all make. That helped me skyrocket my overall gameplay and after a while, I was able to climb the ranked ladder of the game and I moved from the weakest division to being among the top 5% of the players in my server. This achievement was quite improbable at first. So since then I had been wondering - how could adopting such a philosophy make me a better player in the game? Why didn't all the mechanics I had watched help me, but instead it was this simple thought of always blaming yourself that released the handle of my potential? …

Preslav Mihaylov.

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