Challenges are meant to make you and not to mar you
If there is no challenge, I doubt if there will be any innovations.
collins dictionary defines Challenge as something new and difficult which requires great effort and determination. I feel the definition has said it all.
I have been challenged at every point at the Andela’s boot camp. The experience has been wonderful and tasking all the way.
What is Andela’s boot camp
Andela’s boot camp is a two-week long exercise where young developers gather under one roof to display their growth mindset. It is a stage you must pass through before you’re admitted into Andela’s fellowship.
My challenges at Andela’s boot camp has been effortful, interesting and demanding. But guess what, I am enjoying every bit of it majorly because I’m learning at an exponential rate.
One of my challenges was sleeping for less than five hours per day. There’s a point in my life that I thought if I don’t sleep up to six to eight hours I would break down but I had to adapt because I must meet up with expectations and implement feedbacks. I try to adapt and now I can sleep for less than five hours without the fear of breaking down.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
My PC’s backup is not strong, it barely lasts for thirty minutes but I had to keep it always charged in order to finish up my project. So, I had to move from one place to the other in a search for where to charge when my PC battery gets low. Just last Wednesday, I had to stay back at work for hours in order to work on my projects.
One has to move from one’s comfort zone to challenge oneself. ~Dulquer Salmaan
As regards coding, I came across a lot of challenges but I would love to call them “blockers”. At a particular time, I was having an error “ An error occurred while creating users table: { error: database “Travis” does not exist ”, leveraging on my environment, asking one of my fellow boot campers helped me “unblocked the blocker”. He sent me a link and I was able to fix the error.
Surround yourself with good people; surround yourself with positivity and people who are going to challenge you to make you better. ~Ali Krieger
Lemme conclude by saying, challenges are signs that you are growing, changing and advancing. It also means you have a growth mindset, you are not stereotyped.
