Making Things Tougher Than They Really Are
What are you doing when is something important in front of you? Are you thinking about it? Are you preparing? Or do you just jump into it and do it? I’m more of a thinker and that’s my curse.
I had to perform an one-way job interview. I had prepared, shaved, sat down and connected to the Internet. All the things were wrong, I connecting to the application became impossible and the borrowed iPad was making me mad. I didn’t know that iPad is omitting some important information, but it does. I had to combine PC and iPad (because of the camera) to make it working. I finally did it and all the things were working. But I was stressed out a lot. I wanted things working smooth and they weren’t.
I was finally so tired so I just sat down, read the first question: “Why have you chosen this project?How can you contribute to it?” and I started thinking. I was supposed to make 30 seconds video. I had prepared it and started recording. First recording was terrible, second one was my own error by touching a wrong button. The third attempt wasn’t good enough, but it was my last chance so I submitted it. After an hour of doing things like this, I lost all my energy and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible.
The moment when I was exhausted and still recording the videos made me realize that I putting so much effort to it isn’t necessary. Then I relaxed a little, finished it and submitted it. Now I know, that I can be more influential while being relaxed and doing it more casual.
Pavel
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Making Things Tougher Than They Really Are
What are you doing (do you do) when is something important is in front of you? Are you thinking about it? Are you preparing? Or do you just jump into it and do it? I’m more of a thinker and that’s my curse.
I had to perform an one-way job interview. I had prepared, shaved, sat down and connected to the Internet. All the things were (went) wrong, I connecting to the application became impossible and the borrowed iPad (the iPad I borrowed) was making me mad. I didn’t know that that iPad was omitting some important information, but it does did. I had to combine the PC and the iPad (because of the camera) to make it working. I finally did it and all the things were working. But I was stressed out a lot. I wanted things working smooth and they weren’t.
I was finally so tired so I just sat down, read the first question: “Why have you chosen this project?How can you contribute to it?” and I started thinking. I was supposed to make a 30 seconds video. I had prepared it and started recording. First recording was terrible, second I made a mistake one was my own error by touching a wrong button. The third attempt wasn’t good enough, but it was my last chance so I submitted it. After an hour of doing things like this, I lost all my energy and wanted to get rid of it as soon as possible.
The moment when I was exhausted and still recording the videos made me realize that I putting so much effort to it isn’t necessary. Then I relaxed a little, finished it and submitted it. Now I know, that I can be more influential while being relaxed and doing it more casual.
Pavel
Hi Pavel! Yeah I know the feeling of things going totally wrong! But I’m glad you were able to relax and get things done!
Here are some observations:
1) The first question is in the present tense because it’s a general question you are asking the readers.
2) And in general just make sure you use the verbs in the right tense, for example use verbs in the past when talking about past experiences. But overall, you did well!
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