5 personality traits that will hold you back as a developer
atabakoff
Posted on October 6, 2023
- Lack of sense of humor - appropriate jokes make communication more pleasant and as a result more effective. No one wants to work with a robot or worse, a person got triggered by a harmless joke.
- Being defensive - feedback is necessary to grow and defensiveness prevents from accepting & addressing the feedback and consequently from the growth.
- Vindictiveness - sometimes people do offend you but in 99% it's unintentional. Either way, going berserk after them will prevent you from the actual work, worsen the communication and overall productivity of you, the team and everyone else involved.
- Absence of self-irony - we are human and occasionally we make stupid mistakes. The presence of self-irony allows to recognize the situation, joke about it and move forward with a good mood.
- Lack of self-reflection - one who wants to grow must reflect on both what he did & what feedback he got. Going back to this in a month, 3 months, 6 months gives you a different perspective and provides helpful insights. It's like a great book - to fully grasp it you read it the second & third time.
All the great engineers I worked with have excellent sense of humor & self-irony, they never defensive and they regularly reflect on their own performance & development. They appreciate the feedback & strive to address it.
Anything I missed?
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atabakoff
Posted on October 6, 2023
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