Sometimes you gotta run before you can walk
Lessons from Tony Stark! Well at least 3 that I’ve learnt by “running before walking”
1. You’re forced to self reflect
I knew immediately after once the actually job was revealed that I was not qualified for this!
Internal thoughts were screaming
“I am going to look so stupid. How will I even figure this out?
“This is completely absurd. Not possible”
But instead, what I did reflect on, was why I was capable of the job and if anything why I believe it was the right candidate for them. I focused on my strengths, my brand and was confident that I was going to be something they weren’t prepared for in a good way. I never lied, if anything addressed the lack of qualification requirement before they did. But I sold myself, my brand, my potential and my ambition. My current career is within sales, and without coming across as chauvinistic I’m confident I can sell Ice to an eskimo, so selling myself wasn’t going to be an issue. But I learnt in this process, that not only that I could identify these strengths that I really hadn’t focused on before, but I was impressing myself on the capabilities of my own worth. Not that Ive ever considered myself not worthy of anything, but I saw this numerical number That I considered unreachable in my current experience and time of life but I was wrong, and the feedback confirmed it. I was more than capable of running before walking, and now I wonder have I been ‘walking’ for too long?
2. You’re forced to self empathise
Running before walking is an immediate decision, it’s your decision, and therefore your responsibility and you own self accountability for the result. I had always had someone around me to ask for help and compassion when I unsure of myself, they’d provide feedback and I’d learn, grow and become better, stronger!
Whether it was one of my parents, a sibling, a friend, or a colleague, I had people around me, but I didn’t know how to discuss this process, or was fearful of discussing other opportunities to my current place of work about another, I’m not intending to leave my current place of work so discussing this would make me feel guilty, even though I was sure initially the job wouldn’t be in the cards for me anyway . So when I got the result and the feedback, besides my wife and the small amount of family I told, there wasn’t that large support group I’d normally rely on for this type of back up of sooth, so I I found ways to self-empathise.
learn how without back up, you can back up yourself, a type of self reliance.
3. You learn new skills
Now this doesn’t mean you have to have come up with something brand new, or have re-invented the wheel. In my case I learnt that the skills I posses were much more prominent and powerful compare to what I thought they were. To compare myself to Tony stark, when he completed his Mach 2 suit, eagerly after making the first one in a cave. I feel like that now, I feel like the skills that I already had, Ive seen how they can be used, how they or I am worth and when I had that realisation after the first interview, I felt like I had my knew ironman suit on and when the 2nd interview came I was willing to run with it, not test it out. I was confident.
Now moving forward Past this interview, I’ve discovered they these skills, powers, abilities I have a limitless potential and Im already working on my next project, my next Iron Man suit. Watch this space
