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.

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1. 7 Lessons You Can Learn From Disney Movies
2. Who is he? • PHP since ‘97 • Started with symfony 0.6 • Ingewikkeld
3. Who are you?
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
5. You are not alone
6. People can help • Sometimes you have to look for help • Sometimes the help just happens • You are not alone
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
8. What is your goal?
9. Set some goals • Learn • Make mistakes • Evaluate • Set new goals
10. Learn, practice and persevere
11. Set some goals • Make mistakes • Learn • Evaluate • Set new goals
12. It’s not a competition
13. Teamwork • Ambition is fine • Move the project forward • Work together
14. Take a chance on you
15. The risk is yours to take • Take a chance • New technology • Switch jobs • You may fail • Learn from failing
16. Change perspective
17. Look at it from this side • Get that other perspective • Talk to someone • Reconsider • Rubberducking!
18. Is there a place… ? • That place is here • See talks • Hallway track!
19. Questions?
20. Thank you • https://skoop.dev/ • https://ingewikkeld.net/sessions • @skoop@phpc.social on Mastodon • @skoop on Twitter