The Circle of Concern and Circle of Influence and How they impact a Developer
Permit me to talk about the the two different circles and their positive and negative impact on the daily living , growth and development of a software developer, often times we as human being tend to sink and be consumed by how people around us define and perceive us. This type of behaviour affects us so much that we tend to even forget ourselves and the potential we hold as people to develop and make a positive difference in our lives and the world at large.
When one as a developer, devotes most of his attention on how people around them perceive them and how they define them in all terms/ aspect of life, they end up forgetting the too much potential they have to change and better their lives as developers and even become influential and make a difference in the community they live in.
The circle of Concern, revolves around what the everyone, your surrounding thinks of you, what they think is right and wrong to do or not, what they think everyone should do in the so called “normal life”, when someone tries to deviate from what is considered as the normal, then everyone would criticize, comment and this as a fact often times influences the way one would think about a particular topic, plan or goal and then end up giving in to the normal that the surrounding has defined for you (this as a developer can hinder you from learning a new framework based on the perception of other about it, its not good enough, it does not do this or that or even learn a new programming language). So you end up being consumed by the too much noise from the surrounding and the little voice inside you that says you can learn it, can do it, ends up being shadowed and eventually it dies out.
However if you as a Developer resort to grow the Circle of Influence rather than the Circle of Concern, you decide to grow and push towards a set personal goal or achievement despite of what noise from the surrounding, you find that you end up doing a lot, achieving a lot than possible thought you could and end up being successful.
As I wind up this, developers who concentrate on the Circle of Influence (the circle within their means to control) end up being the proactive people who always see a possibility even in times of hardship and times of no way through and these are winners and not quitters. On the other hand, developers who concentrate on the Circle of Concern that most rather the Circle of Influence (circle outside their control) end up becoming overwhelmed by the pressure from the surrounding, giving up and failing and these are the reactive people.
Therefore choose to concentrate on the Circle you have control over and you will move mountains, choose to be proactive and always see positivity as a possibility at all times.
Be Blessed