How do you do? My name is Daniel Cole, Matchstic employee for just one and half weeks. I am guest posting today about a simple topic: pace.

In the protective wings of institutional learning, I had a very formulaic design process – as far as my feelings and mental state were concerned. Often I would begin optimistic, become distressed by exceeding personal expectations, and then begin bargaining for something just decent. At this point I would accept I done my best over many sleepless nights and soldier on or reassess everything to try again. This is how it was, it was a slow pace, but it had an inevitable end: growth.

Getting a job has added a few layers. Most obviously, I haven't bargained lately, I have skipped to being terrified of the new pace of work. Why terrified? The possibility of failure, of course. Now, even in failure one can grow. So, it's not the introduction of failure that matters. It's the one that says ‘mayday'.  In the free fall of starting a career, asking for and receiving help is what will make or break you. I have been learning that and maybe – just maybe –  keeping pace.

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