5 Soft skills every developer should know

John Somnez youtube video from Xamarin Evolve 2016 Talk.

Uncomfortable things — what change you

1. Learn how to learn

• By playing
• By teaching someone
• Always being reading something

2. Mastering your mind

• Overcome Limiting beliefs
• Why not you?
• Acting “as if”
• Learning to overcome fears
• Fears
• What you like will what you hate
• Mentally tough
• Wake up 5 o’clock
• Self discipline — is doing what you exposed to do if you like it or not
• Stop comparing yourself to others
• Compare you to yourself
• Live now

3. Maximizing your productivity

• Know exactly what you want to do when you sit at the computer
• Troll
• Pomodoro
• Stop watching TV

4. Treating your career as a business

• Marketing yourself
• Build your brand
• Do your blog
• Specialize

5. Dealing with people

Dale Carnegie “How to win friends and influence people”