Resilience

The tech industry is an exciting place. We make it possible to access tools from anywhere, improve the way teams collaborate, refine the developer experience. But as a person at the forefront of this excitement, we will encounter challenges. We might not think of ourselves as writers, and we will have to learn how to write clear documentation. We may not have worked much with a diverse team, and we will have to learn how to communicate and collaborate effectively with others. And of course, we will face bugs and frustration. And in these moments, you can pause and ask yourself, “How can I build my tech resilience?”

We each approach challenges differently, and we may find some easier to overcome than others. But what all of us can do is tap into and build our resilience--our capacity to recover quickly from setbacks and difficulties. Decades of research on building resilience supports this.

And we actually practice resilience every day. We tune into ourselves to identify what might be holding us back. We use different perspectives when approaching a situation, we try out multiple solutions and see how well they work, we reach out to others for guidance and feedback and work collaboratively to move forward.

The series of videos that follow will provide you with strategies and concepts to continue building your resilience. The videos will encourage you to pause and notice where you are in your journey, remind you of how far you have come and what you can try when you encounter your next challenge.

Resilience is not a trait that only certain people possess, it is something that all of us have, can tap into, and importantly, practice. By taking the time to reflect, you may find connections between the challenges in your journey and those you have overcome before, and that you can continue to overcome them. Developing resilience will not only improve how we build technical skills as individuals, but also improve how we collaborate to make tech a better environment for everyone.