Listen, we need to acknowledge that spite-driven career development is a real and valid thing

Old boss said you couldn’t do something? Get that paper.

Broseph stole your ideas and got promoted? Become an expert and start your own company.

Someone doubted you? Make it impossible for them to ignore how great you are.

Be as petty as you want on the inside if that’s what motivates you. Become an expert. Get paid. Dance on the graves of the defining bullshit conversations you’ve had in the past. Help uplift others who have also been told they weren’t good enough.

Would it be great if motivation was pure and sweet because you were inspired by some Pinterest quote? Sure!

Do I go to work sometimes with a fire in my belly cuz some idiot told me I wasn’t technically an engineer? Absolutely.

I guarantee you, every URM has some Arya Stark-style list of people who told them they aren’t good enough and they will burn this place to the ground to prove it

bUt iTS nOt gOoD fOR yOU tO bE sO nEgATiVE

Listen. This is spite in the face of adversity. When someone says that you don’t have what it takes when you 1000% do. It’s a power up to the motivation I already had to do the thing I was already doing

This isn’t spite because you think you deserve a thing just because everyone else has it. It’s a direct reaction to being told you’re not good enough by people who didn’t bother to recognize that you were already crushing it