Don't sell your kindness for time 3 Minutes with Kent

Hey friends so I was waiting in line for something and I needed to get this
thing done so I can move on to my next thing so I wouldn't be late and
whatever and there was just this big group of people in front of me that
they were just taking a long time and they should have come earlier to do
the thing that they were doing because they were gonna be late for what
they were doing to and and so it was a little bit frustrating to me and I
was part of me wanted to like say something I got or like can I cut in
front of you because you know, I just,I'm mine's really quick or whatever
but I realized that you know, I wanted to assert myself and be rude to
generate like basically to save myself a few minutes it really wasn't a lot
of time and it made me ponder a little bit on how how much time are you
willing to give to a like to be rude and how much time does it take before
you decide that it's better to be rude?
I'm now there of course sometimes where it like you, you know, you're it's
spouses having a baby or something like they're you need to hurry up
whatever but in general I think that it's just better to learn to be
patient like if it's really just a matter of a few minutes and maybe you're
gonna be a little bit late to a lunch or or some meeting or something, you
know, is it really worth being rude or maybe cutting somebody off of
driving unsafely or whatever just to save yourself a few minutes or be less
late, you know, I,I that was just something that I was thinking about and I
realized that typically I share on this three-minute podcast some of my
thoughts on software development and the career thereof and whatever but I
one of the things that I think is really important and actually was the
first episode of three minutes with Kent was how important it is to be kind
so you know is it my father-in-law I like to quote him saying is it more
important to be a hard worker or to be smart and it's more important to be
a hard worker and isn't more important to be a hard worker to be nice it's
more important.
To be nice and I feel like that's a general principle that we should
explore and a little bit in our lives and and try to emphasize being kind
to other people. I have this laptop sticker on my laptop. I I'm very fond
of stickers and I saw this on a youtubers laptop and I just had to find it
and get it and so I did and it's actually it's a circle and it has Fred
Rogers mr Rogers in there and it says the words be kind and I actually got
two of them so that when I get my next laptop I make sure I have another
one.
Of those I love it anyway. I hope that's helpful and interesting have a
wonderfully.