In my new job, I'm surrounded by so many smart and creative people. Overwhelming and intimidating.

On one hand, it's great to be surrounded by such crowd because that'll push me to be better, on the other hand, it's humbling to realize that I'm no longer "special" here.

Few things that I think could promote growth for the designer in me:

1. go beyond the cosmetics by trying to understand the essence of the problem/opportunity at hand.
2. explore. try this. try that. what if I do this? what if I do that?
3. have fun. get lost in the activity and enjoy it.
4. take risk. doing something daring is part of having fun
5. surround myself with  things that would inspire me. inspiration is the source of creative life
6. look inside, not outside. i need to stop comparing myself with others because it could only produce stagnancy or paralizes me.
7. take a break to gain new perspective. sometimes the best way to improve on a design is to take a break. get away from it for a period of time and get back to it with different perspective
8. push myself. I need to intentionally push myself to go a step further or to try something I'm not confortable with. this would be the hardest thing to do of all items in this list.

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