Breaking into Information Security Quotes

“Any daily work task that takes 5 minutes will cost over 20 hours a year, or over half of a work week. Even if it takes 20 hours to automate that daily 5 minute task, the automation will break even in a year.”
― Anthony J. Stieber, Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want

“It is far better to stop generating content than to generate content that is of such low quality that others do not find value in it and you hurt your brand.”
― Anthony J. Stieber, Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want

“Resiliency is more important than being right. You will be wrong. You will fail. How you handle that situation will matter far more than the failure itself.”
― Anthony J. Stieber, Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want

“If you get hurt every time someone misunderstands or demonstrates their unwillingness to learn, you'll never build the experience needed to get truly good at teaching and, therefore, will never experience the rewards of doing it well.”
― Anthony J. Stieber, Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want

“Fundamentally, a mistake shows you where you misunderstood something, so you can correct it. The faster you make mistakes, the faster you learn. It's that simple.”
― Anthony J. Stieber, Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want

“Scientific studies have shown that there is a measurement, called Error Positivity (EP), that shows how well people learn from mistakes. Those that have a higher EP tend to learn more and better than those that do not. Since high EP correlates to positive attitude and a willingness to work but does not correlate to intelligence, there is a theory that this is why, over time, competent hard workers outperform their more intelligent but less hard-working competition.”
― Anthony J. Stieber, Breaking into Information Security: Crafting a Custom Career Path to Get the Job You Really Want