Is a complex really a negative thing for you?

The feeling of an educational background complex

Unlike the people around me, I do not have a high educational background.
Ever since I entered the workforce, I have felt a complex about that.

When the topic of educational background comes up, I would prefer to leave the scene.
There have been times when I felt that way.

There are many excellent people in the world who have graduated from prestigious universities.
When working in the same workplace as such people, I end up feeling like I am lacking something.

I suspect that many people have had similar feelings.

However, as I have worked for a long time as a professional, I have come to have a slightly different perspective.

Is a complex really a negative thing?

Being able to realize that I "don't know"

There are many things I don't know.
I have always been aware of that.

Perhaps that is precisely why I was able to learn with an open mind.

If I had thought that I "already know enough,"
I probably wouldn't have studied this much.

Admitting that you don't know something.
And trying to learn from that point.

Being able to maintain this attitude,
might have been thanks to my complex.

Learning after becoming a working professional

Learning as a student and learning as a working professional are slightly different.

Learning in student days
tends to focus on memorizing knowledge.

Of course, that is also important.
However, in the workplace, that alone is not enough.

How do you use that knowledge?
In what situations do you apply it?

In other words,
transforming it into usable knowledgebecomes important.

Simply stuffing yourself with knowledge
is rarely useful in work.

Try it out in the field,
fail,
rethink,
and learn all over again.

Through that repetition,
knowledge finally becomes something alive.

Thinking about it that way,
I don't think the amount I've learned since becoming a working adult
has been small at all.

A complex can be a driving force

Why have I been able to keep learning so much?

When I think about the reason,
I believe the existence of my complexes played a major role.

When people are satisfied,
it is hard to keep putting in the effort.

There is something that bothers you somewhere.
There is a feeling somewhere that you don't want to lose.

It is precisely because those feelings exist
that people try to move forward.

A complex
is certainly a painful emotion.

But at the same time,
it can also be the energy that moves people.

What is positive and what is negative

Recently, I have come to think this way.

You don't know what is positive and what is negative
in that very moment.

A certain event
might feel disadvantageous at the time.

However,
when time passes and you look back,
you sometimes realize that it was an experience that helped you grow.

Life's events
often don't make sense in the moment.

The dots connect later

Steve Jobs said this in his speech at Stanford University.

Life events
do not have meaning at the moment they happen.
However, when you look back later, the dots connect