Lessons Learned from a Summer Job

Adrian S. Potter
5 min readFeb 26, 2022

You never know when you’ll discover wisdom.

Photo by Kane Reinholdtsen on Unsplash

Here is a story about how a college-aged version of me stumbled into a growth mindset. It begins, like most narratives, at the doorstep of the protagonist’s fears.

Let’s start with something most can agree with — public speaking can be challenging and scary.

Adrian S. Potter

Antisocial Extrovert · Writer and Poet, Engineer, Consultant, Public Speaker · Writing about self-improvement, gratitude, and creativity · www.adrianspotter.com