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Day #3 of Work Week at The Napkin Dad Daily
Long ago I had a job where I used certain development software very intensely.  My boss came to me and someone senior to me and asked if either of us wanted to work with a new software program neither of us were familiar with.  The person senior to me had first pick. He said no.  I jumped at the chance and said yes. But my boss wasn’t sure.  She asked ‘Can you do the job?’  I said yes and immediately started staying late after work to learn the program.  I succeeded in mastering it, the other guy soon quit under pressure because his work was suffering and his skills were laking.  I became the boss a year later. He went back to Texas and worked in construction.

If each challenge you face in work (and in life) is met first with a ‘I don’t know how to do that’ response, then guess what?  You won’t be given the chance to learn how to do it. Whether it’s taking a class for your own enjoyment or something at your place of work,  make your first response be ‘Yes, I can’ then work like hell learning how. 
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Drawing and commentary by Marty Coleman of The Napkin Dad Daily

Quote by Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, 26th President of the United States