Work Copied: Pride and Prejudice Chapter 5
There’s always room for improvement.
I feel that deeply, having just started apprenticing at a startup. When you are young in a trade, you pull information from those around you constantly. You listen closely, seeking for nuggets in every conversation.
This apprentice mindset is like a greenhouse for professional growth. That’s why you see young people quickly rise from being relatively unskilled to carrying themselves confidently in the workplace.
I feel like many people lose this apprentice mindset somewhere in life. Man hits a point in his life where he feels he has reached the summit of his career or life. He forgets the sheer passion of his youth, the driving force behind his growth. He wipes away the memories of his clumsiness, and loses the curiosity he once had for the world.
I’m writing this because I don’t want to ever become that. No matter what happens in life, I don’t want to lose the apprentice mindset.
This is my commitment: to never lose curiosity for the things I don’t know; to always listen with the intense desire to gain what I can; to give myself wholeheartedly to the next adventure.
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