“Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.” — this idea alone could change your life forever.
If you work hard at your job, that’s great — you’ll earn a living, pay your bills, maybe even upgrade your laptop once in a while.
But if you work just as hard on yourself, your results can multiply. Because when you grow as a person — not just as a dev — your value grows too. Not just for the job market, but for life itself.
Upgrade yourself → your income follows
You can have more than you have now, simply because you can become more than you are. Triple your value — triple your income. Multiply it by five — and you might just unlock financial freedom with your next pull request.
But here’s the twist: success isn’t something you chase.
Success is something you attract by becoming valuable — by becoming the kind of person who draws opportunities in.
Become responsible. Resilient. Skilled. Communicative. Curious. Strong. That’s the kind of upgrade no framework can give you — but it changes everything.
So what does “working on yourself” look like?
Learn new programming languages (and human ones too)
Read books — not just docs
Sleep instead of shipping just one more task
Practice communication like it’s a dev skill (because it is)
Understand psychology — especially your own
Drop habits that drain you
Build side projects — not just on GitHub, but in real life
You’re not code — but you can refactor yourself.
And when you do, the world will respond with a whole new version.
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