Yeah, I did. Holy cow.
My Mother teaches at a college and periodically she and I have discussed the attitudes and often apathy she sees in some of her students or even in society in general. We have discussed the possible reasons for it and tried to figure out what “went wrong” and how did we get to t this point. And we discuss how it seems like a lot of people and groups just don’t want to do the work. They want it handed to them.
I recently found that I had fallen into that same mind set, trap, behavior, all of it. I was embarrassed and appalled.
I am taking an on-line boot-camp sort of course at work. It covers pretty much the same topic for two different releases of the application. For one release the on-line labs actually have the code written out, if you know where to look, and so you can copy and paste it and then run it without having to figure out how to do it yourself. The labs for the other version don’t have the code written out.
I was working on the module for the version with no code when I came to the lab. I remember thinking about the fact that the code wasn’t already written out so I was going to have to think harder to get the lab done and how I didn’t wan to do that. What!? Wait a minute. Did I really just…? No. Yes, I did. Oh My God. How awful. When did I get so lazy.
Ok. So I’m not even going to try to figure out how I got to this point. I’m not sure it matters and there are way too many things that could have caused it or contributed to it. So I’m moving on to…How the devil do I fix this!?
I think it probably starts with staying focused and disciplined and making a point of doing those sorts of things anyway. Even if I don’t want to. Making a point of doing the things that seem hard. Though I’m still reeling from the shock, I can’t believe I really thought that. Holy cow. I will be fixing that! Now.