CHAPTER 11: FIVE SKILLS EVERY ITPROFESSIONAL NEEDS NOW
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Ancient proverb
That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood all your life, but in a new way.
Doris Lessing
If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things that you cannot learn any other way.
Mark Twain
Learning something new can be one of the most exciting things in the world. Learning something new can be one of the scariest things in the world. A lot of times, it is both. And, as Mark Twain points out in his colorful way, in many cases there is simply no other way to learn than by doing something.
As we dive into the five skills that you must learn, that is an important point to understand. This is not about ‘book ...
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