13 Jan
Scared…Sometimes I get scared to release things or ask questions. Often times, it’s because I’m scared of making mistakes and being criticized. I believe this fear has made me miss a lot of opportunities and I fight with it on a daily basis.
Unfortunately, this fear has begun to creep into other aspects of my work/life. I’m afraid to make mistakes and so I don’t take as many chances. I don’t ask as many questions. I’m less involved. Less useful to the community.
I think that, for many reasons, this fear is justified. In the development and design industry, you’re faced with public scrutiny the minute you release any piece of work and it’s extremely easy to slip up, be negative and look down upon others.
I have presentation ideas that will never come to fruition, thousands of lines of code and hundreds of projects at 50-80% completion, and last, but not least, I have over 40 blog posts drafted (and in some cases completed) that may never see the light of day.
I have no consoling words, advice or the like. I’m simply stating that there’s a problem here and I hope to fix it one day.
Thanks,
Darcy
tags: design / development / fear / work
5 comments
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Posted: Jan 13, 2012
If it helps, the things that you have shared are how I found you and added you to my mental list of people that make the web design and dev community great.
As a community we learn, do and share. It’s our community makeup. Unfortunately there is plenty of negativity that comes along with it. I would love to see it disappear too and I hope we can all figure out a fix.
In the meantime, to quote @beep – “I think the real lesson here is that humanity hasn’t learned how to use blank textareas responsibly.”
Release your stuff and know that for every one tool that spouts half-thought negativity, there’s at least 100 quietly learning from what you shared.
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Posted: Jan 13, 2012
I have the same problem. Thanks for posting this
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Posted: Jan 17, 2012
WOW! I have felt the same way. I have designed and redesign my own website and it is still not up. I look over my own code & design so much that when its time to launch I feel that it is out of date and I could do better. Thank for sharing and I defiantly don’t think your alone.
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Posted: Feb 8, 2012
Same problem here, too. I’ve had it probably forever, and noticed it last year.
