This is a handwritten note of building a mindset that is needed to be successful in engineering career, described by Pravin Mishra

I highly recommend you to first watch the video multiple of times and then use this note to recall steps any time you’re confused.

PILLAR 1 Long Term Thinking

• Most people don’t fail because of being less smart, rather fails because of craving fast result and instant gratification.
• Starting strong, doing two weeks of motivation doesn’t work usually, missing one day, one week then disappearing is too common scenario with being motivated.
• Our learning, relationships, reputations these are so compound concepts connected with a lot of things. That’s why the idea of judging ourselves daily is not a good idea. Daily is too emotional but monthly judgement shows do I moving or not.
• Small amount of time but providing consistently that makes difference in our life race. Even giving 45 minutes a day, 5 days a week implies to 225 minutes a week, almost 4 hours a month, 200 hours in 1 year. That’s huge because all this 200 hours is focused training. That’s enough to be comfortable with a technology.
• Never give the control of your decision to your emotions. Always think with these small math and rationales.

PILLAR 2 Thinking Differently

• Principles over opinions.
• We need engineering way of thinking. A real engineer mindset is break problems down, ignores noise and find the truth through reasoning and testing.
• We are growing up following a lot of rules from different parts of our life society, family, company etc but there is issue with rules, it doesn’t adapt with environment changes. Rather we need principles that works even our circumstances change.
• To learn more about practice thinking he suggested a book called “Lateral Thinking” by Edward De Bono

Here are the principles we need to think properly.

Question Authority

Before following any rule we need to question the authority without blindly obeying. Most of the cases we follow rule provided by an authority because the authority is confident and has a good position. Asking question is smarter move such as

• “What problem this rule is solving? “
• “What other approaches are available in this scenario”
• “What evidences support it?”

These questions can provide clarity and the proper reasoning when our motivation system becomes weak.