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Be a Student, not a follower

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Segun Adebayo

Segun Adebayo

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Be a Student, not a follower

I took some time to reflect on my past experiences and looked through my journal. I was inspired by a note I wrote to myself in 2019. It was a classic thought from Jim Rohn about how to approach learning and life.

  • Be a student not a follower. Don't be a sheep, following everything you hear other people say.
  • Examine everything you hear, watch, see or read. Give careful thought to things and learn make your own decisions.
  • Don't outsource thinking and decision making to outside influences, it only makes you weak over time.
  • When you make a decision and it winds up wrong, the lessons you learn from that failure would make you equipped to make a better decision next time.

This is true for engineering, career and life.


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Written by Segun Adebayo (Sage)

Sage is a Github Star 🌟 and Design Engineer 👨🏽‍💻. He is passionate about helping people build an accessible web faster. Sage is the author of Chakra UI, a React UI library for building accessible experiences.