{"id":1324197,"date":"2015-11-11T07:55:02","date_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/2015\/11\/11\/the-hero-in-your-life-is-never\/"},"modified":"2015-11-11T07:55:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T12:55:02","slug":"the-hero-in-your-life-is-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/2015\/11\/11\/the-hero-in-your-life-is-never\/","title":{"rendered":"The hero in your life is never&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;The hero in your life is never going to be the person who pats you on the head: it\u2019s going to be the person who puts their own need to be liked aside to make you a better designer. And no, someone doesn\u2019t need to understand you or your project 100% before they have the right to say anything about it. The person who doesn\u2019t get you or what you made is the one that is most likely to come up with the idea or the insight that you can\u2019t come up with on your own. People who see things differently are gold.&#8221;<br>\n<P><br>\n&#8220;So next time someone is giving you feedback about something you made, think to yourself that to win means getting two or three insights, ideas, or suggestions that you are excited about, and that you couldn\u2019t think up on your own. Lead the conversation until you get there. Ask real questions that tell you something that you didn\u2019t know already. Say \u201ctell me more.\u201d Let them wander, tell stories, not understand, be irrelevant\u200a\u2014\u200atake as long as it takes to listen for the pieces that make you better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cite>https:\/\/deardesignstudent.com\/why-is-so-much-of-design-school-a-waste-of-time-39ec2a1aa7d5<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230;The hero in your life is never going to be the person who pats you on the head: it\u2019s going to be the person who puts their own need to be liked aside to make you a better designer. And no, someone doesn\u2019t need to understand you or your project 100% before they have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[333,198],"views":749,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1324197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1324197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1324197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1324197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/himy.ca.muslimwiki.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1324197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}