[BAWD #83] The Emotional Gauntlet of Learning to Code

Jul 25, 2022

Hello, dear friend 👋🏾,

I trust you had a blissful week? Btw, here’s a friendly reminder that people are your greatest assets and liabilities; treat them well. The Paradoxical Commandments of Leadership states that:

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered—love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives—do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies—succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow—do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable—be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds—think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs—fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight—build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them—help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have, and you’ll get kicked in the teeth—give the world the best you have anyway.

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Commerce Layer is a multi-market commerce API and order management system that lets you easily add global shopping capabilities to any website, mobile app, chatbot, wearable, voice, or IoT device.

Good Tidings 🔊

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Here are some tweets I think are cool and some of my favorite videos from YouTube this week.

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🇳🇬🏅🥹 Tears of joy for new world record holder Tobi Amusan as she collects Nigeria's first ever World Championship gold! What a moment! 🤗

Bọ́lájí Ayọ̀dejì @iambolajiayo

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others. David Burns, a medical doctor and professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, observed, “The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most people really want is to be listened to, respected, and understood. The moment people see that they are being understood, they become more motivated to understand your point of view." If you can learn to understand people how they think, what they feel, what inspires them, how they're likely to act and react in a given situation-then you can motivate and influence them in a positive way.

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“To be trusted is a greater compliment that to be loved” –George MacDonald

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