Jump into the deep end

Fools rush in and at times it is good to rush in. When I used to be a software engineering consultant often I would be given "impossible tasks." This is because I would never consider something as a problem but only as a challenge.

And I love challenges. So I would accept whatever project was given me and I would jump in the deep end more often than not I would discover that when you jump in the deep end you float – in fact I don’t remember drowning.

There is something magical that happens – when you jump into a project feet first full of self confidence – the pieces of the puzzle fall into place. I have previously written that if you want to double your successes double your failures.

When I look back at my various careers, I note that in reality it is not the number of failures you need to increase but the risk to fail that needs be increased. The more safe risks you take the more successes you will have.

Note I wrote safe risks. By that I mean calculated risks when you do everything possible to have all the resources you can have and then just go for it. For example, I do not appreciate heights too much and once I went on a “outward bound” type of a function where we had to traverse a tree trunk sixty feet long and forty feet above the ground. There was some high wire fun and game and jumping off a thirty foot high pole.

The safety came from being in a harness which would have saved us if we were to fall. When we got to the high section (previous activity were difficult but nearer to the ground) I volunteered to go up the tree trunk first. I knew that the longer I waited the more I could give in to my fear of heights.

So I put on the harness, made sure it was safe and climbed the ladder as fast as I could. The first few steps were not easy but with each step it became easier and soon I was having great fun.

In case of software engineering I suppose the safety came from the intuition many years of working under difficult circumstances gives you. Again I have heard from many others in other fields if someone asks you, “Can you do it?”

Always reply, “Yes. I can do it.”

You’ll learn whatever you need on the way. As, I wrote I for one always jumped in the deep end and I cannot remember ever drowning.

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