Renewable Energy & Sustainability Heroes by GineersNow Engineering GineersNow Engineering Magazine Issue No. 017, Ren | Page 44

The Brutal Truth Why Some Engineers
Haven’t Fulfilled Their Potentials
Ten reasons why engineers haven’t reached their full potentials and aren’t
where they want to be.
You’re frustrated. You feel like you should be
somewhere else in life, way ahead of where
you are right now; and yet you can’t seem to
pinpoint your problem, so you just scream that
you just want to be happy.
Well, the brutal truth is that the problem might
be in yourself. You have to learn to get out of
your own way.
Here are 10 reasons why some Engineers
haven’t fulfilled their potentials.
1) Fear
You daydream about quitting your boring job
and joining an elite electronics company or
starting your own project even if you know
you’ve saved enough and you have what it
takes, yet you never do so because you’re
afraid of the consequences.
Stop daydreaming, breathe, feel that fear, and
do it anyway.
2) Not “walking the walk”
You like to be given advice, but you never
follow it. You think that by listening to it you’ll
follow it eventually. Listen, advice doesn’t seep
into you through osmosis. Listen, understand,
and follow through.
3) You have no direction
How will you ever reach your dreams if you
don’t know how to get there? Destinations
need direction, and so do your goals. Plan
what you want to do to reach your goals and
follow that plan.
4) You don’t measure your
progress
How will you know how much you’re improved
if you don’t have a way of measuring it?
Measure your progress, know how much more
you have to grow and expand. This’ll help you
reach your full potential