What’s currently going on in your mind?
Are there five things? Fifty? Five thousand?
Are they important things? Or is it a bunch of random stuff?
What are the things that actually matter to you at the moment?
When you hear the word coaching, what do you think?
Some new-age, touch grass, time-wasting management trick?
Maybe you think of that movie with the basketball team.
Or perhaps it’s just another meeting scheduled in my calendar.
Have you heard people saying things like…
These are all normal, expected and common phrases. We hear them all the time.
Simple is… very hard.
Did you ever stare at your screen and wonder: “How did we get to this level of WTFs/minute?”
Maybe it’s even a regular event for you.
A few months ago, I started learning a new programming language: Golang.
Yes, the language with the weird creature mascot.
And everything was uncomfortable.
How do I do the most basic things?
Many developers I’ve met love optimizing their workflow. So do I.
It just feels great to discover an efficient approach to a problem you’ve been faced with daily for a long time.
To find that new shortcut that now saves you 3 clicks and moving your arm to that mouse and back to the keyboard.
People must be one of the most complicated organisms on the planet to collaborate with, am I right?
When thinking about individual and team motivation, a lingering concept pops up from the dark corners of my mind:
Berlin.
Street art, cultures from all over the world, street guitarists playing Jimi Hendrix covers, massive buildings, big parks, triple the amount of car lanes compared to Belgium, bad English of non-foreigners and the freedom for anyone to express himself.
A unique and wonderful place for sure!
I remember it profoundly.
Exiting the train station of Brussels North, the fresh wind wholeheartedly introducing the monster high fancy buildings.
Clean and open space led to the various entrances of the monumental glass castle towers, one of which expected me among the 23 other students.