Full Stack Journey 074: Going The Distance – What Running Can Teach Us About Careers

On today’s Full Stack Podcast, Scott is joined by Krithika Chandramouli, a software engineer at Meta, to discuss how the lessons she learned while preparing to run her first-ever half-marathon also apply to careers and career decisions.
The podcast is loosely structured around this Medium post by Krithika. Some of the lessons we discuss include:

* Just get started
* Your progress may be non-linear
* The 3 C’s (Consistency, Commitment, and Continuity)

Scott and Krithika also dive into the relationship between consistency and one’s progress toward a goal, and how understanding the “why” behind a goal you want to achieve can help provide the motivation to achieve it.
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Show Notes:
Life Lessons from Training for a Half Marathon – Krithika Chandramouli via Medium
LeadDev (where Krithika is having an article published soon)
Women Who Code CONNECT 2023 – (Krithika will be speaking at this event)
Start With Why by Simon Sinek – Amazon
Simon Sinek’s TED talk