Patience and Ambitions.

What happens to all your passion ?

I believe the answer lies in a failure to find balance in life – a failure to balance ambition and patience. The problem is that most of us fail to recognize how powerful ambition is. Ambition is the fuel that drives us. It can also make us impatient, and impatience can blind us to the opportunities and challenges we confront.

Long-term success requires a strong foundation. Most of us start our careers with basic foundational components –our gifts and talents, our education, and our experiences. As designers, we emphasize the process because it leads us to a desirable outcome. For certain things, we can’t rush them. We can’t rush the ideation process, we can’t rush user testing and we can’t always rush the people we work with because it affects the quality of their work. There is a reason why things can take a long time and the best thing we can do is accommodate, listen and be patient. Embrace the journey, not the outcome. Look at your failures as opportunities to learn and improve.

How do we improve what we have while developing and acquiring what we lack?

Experience! Experience! Experience! Through different experiences and through trial and error, we learn the lessons that establish and solidify our foundation. Failure to learn these lessons early in our careers can have devastating implications later. Mistakes we make at age 25 teach important lessons. At 40, the same mistakes end careers.

Your ambitions may be out of alignment with the reality of our surroundings. This frustration may led to a desire to leave. But an honest assessment of the opportunities will give you the ability to make formed career decisions.

 I consider myself an impatient person. I want to constantly grow to get to the point where I am successful in everything I do. In an ideal world, one wouldn’t need to worry about screwing up or missing an opportunity, but life doesn’t work that way. We have our ups and downs. So help people find what motivates and inspires them. Many people entering the workforce are still searching for what motivates and inspires them. As professionals, wunderkinds, leaders, we have the opportunity to leverage passion and expose enthusiasm. Create opportunities for new employees to use different skills. Help them find what they like and what they don’t. Consider how your reward system might be punishing failures rather than encouraging risk taking and learning. Encourage learning by rewarding risk taking and appreciating the lessons in failure. Let your meteoric career becomes the goal for every new hire. Be a combination of fact and fiction.

Fact And Fiction

Fact, Sergey Mikhailovich Brin and Lawrence Edward Page dropped out of college, founded Google, and became billionaires. Bill Gates, dropped out of Harvard after a year and a half.

9 incredibly famous Architects who didn't possess any architecture degree -

• Frank Lloyd Wright.
• Louis Sullivan.
• Le Corbusier.
• Mies van der Rohe.
• Buckminster Fuller.
• Luis Barragán.
• Carlo Scarpa.
• Tadao Ando.

Fiction, dropping out of college is a proven path to career success. For every superstar countless others failed. As a leader, we can make legends out of those who follow a more traditional path to success.

Make mentoring a key part of your leadership development. One of the best ways to demonstrate your commitment is by investing your time and attention. Mentoring exposes the mentee to the realities of leadership. It also gives them a forum to voice their ideas.

How can we feed and nurture ambition through patient and deliberate development?

• Encourage learning by rewarding risk taking and appreciating the lessons in failure.
• Invest time and energy to understand what motivates those we lead.
• Help people find what motivates and inspires them.
• Be honest about what it takes to progress in your organization.
• Make mentoring a key part of your leadership development, never stop questioning.

According to Albert Einstein :

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.”