New Intolerances

Previously, you have been tolerant of your own difficulties with sales, but intolerant of your chops with coding.

Tolerant of being on the side of employment, but intolerant of not having interesting challenges in what you’re building.

Tolerant for the place where you were, intolerant for the quality of what you were working on.

But something changed.

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Now, you’re becoming tolerant of shortcuts in code, but intolerant at understanding why people behave a certain way.

Tolerant for leaving things incomplete, and intolerant for getting done fast.

Tolerant for what has become easy, and intolerant for getting good at what’s scary and hard.

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The act of creating new intolerances doesn’t mean you’ll become a new person, although you might end up becoming better in the process. No need to protect your old self, because you’re still in there.

Cultivating intolerances is like developing a palate and developing taste while you’re making progress. The old standards are still around, if you’d like to pull them back in, but your new standards will be here to stay.