You sit your team down, explain a big project that the team is going to embark upon. You open the floor for team discussion… You will encounter two types of engineers: The Optimist and The Pessimist The Optimist: she is excited. She starts discussing how we can break the project down. How to solve certain problems. Who can work on what etc. In her mind she has started working on the project.

The best way for you to learn might not be by just reading. For a long time, people thought reading was the only and best way to learn. But that’s not true at all. Different folks have different styles of learning, and I only figured out mine much later in life. Knowing what works best for you is the key to unlocking your learning potential. I found out about different learning styles from an essay by Peter Drucker, and it got me thinking about how I prefer to learn.