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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Failed to make much of an impact in the first internship I had. Felt pretty terrible afterwards. But it made me aware of many things I needed to sort out: anxiety, attention, avoidance, communication, etc. and gave me a taste of working on interesting, tricky, low level problems.
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David R. MacIver
@DRMacIver
Yeah, things going badly is often a great prompt to address the underlying reasons *why* they went badly. I don't have any good examples of that at work, but can think of a bunch of personal ones.
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Yeah, I was super crushed that I couldn’t help them as much as I wanted to, but was thankful they gave me a chance. I’m now trying to give back to them by doing the best I can on the outside, using the stuff I learned, and trying to be a better human.
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