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7 Lessons You Can Learn From Disney Movies (SymfonyCon 2022)

7 Lessons You Can Learn From Disney Movies (SymfonyCon 2022)

We all love Disney movies, right? They are entertaining, trigger emotional response but also contain a lot of important lessons. And these lessons can also be applied to your career as a developer. During this talk I'll have a look at 7 situations from some of my favorite Disney movies to analyze and see what lesson we can learn from that.

Stefan Koopmanschap

November 17, 2022
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  1. 7 Lessons You Can Learn
    From Disney Movies

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  2. Who is he?
    • PHP since ‘97
    • Started with symfony 0.6
    • Ingewikkeld

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  3. Who are you?

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  4. Use your superpowers
    • Find out what your skills are
    • Find out how you can make those skills useful
    • Communicate with others about your wishes

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  5. You are not alone

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  6. People can help
    • Sometimes you have to look for help
    • Sometimes the help just happens
    • You are not alone

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  7. People can help
    • Testing is important
    • This is not the best job for you
    • How to deal with some customers
    • How to deal with myself

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  8. What is your goal?

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  9. Set some goals
    • Learn
    • Make mistakes
    • Evaluate
    • Set new goals

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  10. Learn, practice and
    persevere

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  11. Set some goals
    • Make mistakes
    • Learn
    • Evaluate
    • Set new goals

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  12. It’s not a competition

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  13. Teamwork
    • Ambition is fine
    • Move the project forward
    • Work together

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  14. Take a chance on you

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  15. The risk is yours to take
    • Take a chance
    • New technology
    • Switch jobs
    • You may fail
    • Learn from failing

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  16. Change perspective

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  17. Look at it from this side
    • Get that other perspective
    • Talk to someone
    • Reconsider
    • Rubberducking!

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  18. Is there a place… ?
    • That place is here
    • See talks
    • Hallway track!

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  19. Questions?

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  20. Thank you
    • https://skoop.dev/
    • https://ingewikkeld.net/sessions
    • @[email protected] on Mastodon
    • @skoop on Twitter

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