I came across this motivational speech by Arnold Schwarzenegger. It is so relevant to people as well as software. Unless you have a dream and a vision of where you want to go you may not meet your goal. Most of the time the vision is like a dream which sounds too good to be true, too difficult to realize but you have to realize that it is your dream. there is something in you that realizes that you have it in you to that wants that dream to become reality.
Long time back when I was in college I came across a book in my fathers library. I read this book by Dr. Robert Schuller titled 'Success is never ending, failure is never final' and in that book he gives real life examples of so many dreams that he realized with his power of positive thinking. When he started with a dream he did not know how to realize the dream, he did not have a plan and the dream looked impossible. After dreaming the same dream in sleep and when awake his mind could slowly start getting a vision of the possible ways to realize the dream. It was slow process, took few days and it is important to believe in yourself and not give up your dream. Those who are mentally strong continue to spend a reasonable time nurturing the dream. Dr Sculler says it is here that your motivation is tested, if you are not passionate about your dream you give up on the dream and all the successful people we know have this one quality that they did not give up on their dream and even after minor failures they reevaluated the dream , re-imbibed the faith in their dream and started again.
The human mind has this fantastic capability of processing information even when you are not awake and there is tons of material , research papers and books written about this subject. Often you will realize that when you have a problem and can't find a solution after a few days you think of s great ideas to solve the problem. I am not a scientist and I have never done any research on the subject I am writing about but I am passionate about these theories and from personal experience I believe when you are honest about solving some problem the mind does some processing in its spare time and one fine day dumps the solution to you. You may have had this experience and wondered why didn't I think about it sooner but what you should realize it that you, your mind or your subconscious mind - whatever you may like to call it was aware of the problem, the mind was processing all the time and it was finally come out with a solution and this is no coincidence. What I want to say is your dream, your vision, your plan, your mind, your subconscious mind are all connected and when you are motivated they work together to realize your plans.
So why is a software developer / software architect talking about Vision? Well because when you build a software you follow the same technique that you follow to plan your life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWJVvNptHZ4
Long time back when I was in college I came across a book in my fathers library. I read this book by Dr. Robert Schuller titled 'Success is never ending, failure is never final' and in that book he gives real life examples of so many dreams that he realized with his power of positive thinking. When he started with a dream he did not know how to realize the dream, he did not have a plan and the dream looked impossible. After dreaming the same dream in sleep and when awake his mind could slowly start getting a vision of the possible ways to realize the dream. It was slow process, took few days and it is important to believe in yourself and not give up your dream. Those who are mentally strong continue to spend a reasonable time nurturing the dream. Dr Sculler says it is here that your motivation is tested, if you are not passionate about your dream you give up on the dream and all the successful people we know have this one quality that they did not give up on their dream and even after minor failures they reevaluated the dream , re-imbibed the faith in their dream and started again.
The human mind has this fantastic capability of processing information even when you are not awake and there is tons of material , research papers and books written about this subject. Often you will realize that when you have a problem and can't find a solution after a few days you think of s great ideas to solve the problem. I am not a scientist and I have never done any research on the subject I am writing about but I am passionate about these theories and from personal experience I believe when you are honest about solving some problem the mind does some processing in its spare time and one fine day dumps the solution to you. You may have had this experience and wondered why didn't I think about it sooner but what you should realize it that you, your mind or your subconscious mind - whatever you may like to call it was aware of the problem, the mind was processing all the time and it was finally come out with a solution and this is no coincidence. What I want to say is your dream, your vision, your plan, your mind, your subconscious mind are all connected and when you are motivated they work together to realize your plans.
So why is a software developer / software architect talking about Vision? Well because when you build a software you follow the same technique that you follow to plan your life.
- You want to solve a real life problem or a business problem
- You are able to visualize a software that will solve the problem - in your mind you see the solution
- You can convince people why and how the software is relevant and sell them the idea
- You know what are the risks and how you will mitigate the risks
- You have a vision of how this software will be designed and what technologies will be used to build it
- You then then create the roadmap for implementing the software
- You make a plan to implement the prototype
- Once the prototype is successful you create a plan to build the software in stages
- You monitor the software development so that things go as per the plan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWJVvNptHZ4
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