Mentoring

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This is one of my personal favorites.

One day, Albert Einstein started to write the nine times table on the blackboard

Table Result 1 x 9 9 2 x 9 18 3 x 9 27 4 x 9 36 5 x 9 45 6 x 9 54 7 x 9 63 8 x 9 72 9 x 9 81 10 x 9 91

The class mocked and made fun of him because he had made a mistake, as the correct answer for 10 x 9 is 90.

Einstein waited for everyone to stop and said

Despite me answering the first 9 questions correctly, no one congratulated me. Instead, when I made one mistake, everyone spotted it and started laughing. This means that despite being very successful, society will only notice the smallest mistake and make a big deal out of it. Don’t let simple criticism destroy your dreams.

Moral of the story

Only those who do nothing make no mistakes.

This is 100% true. Nobody will ever pat you on the back and tell you what a great job you’re doing, but they will be the first to tell you something is wrong.

In keeping with community spirit, I’m very keen to hear what sort of content members here would like to see added, enhanced, or expanded upon. For example, this could be guides, coding tips, literally anything related to technology - with or without a plug.

Remember, this community is yours in the sense that if you’re looking for something specific, all you have to do is ask. If I can help with that, I’m more than happy to.

For example, someone I know (not here) is still running a legacy Windows 2008 server (yeah, I know), and it is extremely slow to respond to network requests. It’s not hardware related, and goes a little deeper than that. It’s nothing that a simple netsh command can’t fix either…

This is one of many examples. 33 years of experience here - feel free to dive in.

Hi all,

Just a post to start potential discussions here. This category is solely designed for those looking to get into IT, extend their knowledge, and even gain access to mentoring (provided by me). This is an ideal place for others to post also and share experiences, concerns, requirements, questions around technology etc.

Some ideas

Recommendations on courses and exams Help setting up a test lab for practice and to gain experience Understanding network concepts

And so much more…

Let’s talk 🙂