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
   

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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
    • @skoop@phpc.social on Mastodon
    • @skoop on Twitter
    

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