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<title><![CDATA[Category: life | ]]></title>
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<link href="http://sp4ke.github.com/blog/blog/categories/life/atom.xml" rel="self"/>
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<link href="http://sp4ke.github.com/blog/"/>
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<updated>2014-01-29T16:29:16+01:00</updated>
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<id>http://sp4ke.github.com/blog/</id>
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<author>
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<name><![CDATA[Chakib Benziane]]></name>
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<email><![CDATA[chakib.benz@gmail.com]]></email>
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<generator uri="http://octopress.org/">Octopress</generator>
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<title type="html"><![CDATA[My most valuable lesson in life learnt the hard way]]></title>
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<link href="http://sp4ke.github.com/blog/my-most-valuable-lesson-in-life-learnt-the-hard-way/"/>
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<updated>2013-04-18T11:51:00+02:00</updated>
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<id>http://sp4ke.github.com/blog/my-most-valuable-lesson-in-life-learnt-the-hard-way</id>
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<content type="html"><![CDATA[<p>Hollywood movies are often introduced with a main character living his life until a big event happens,
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something that is enough life changing to justify a compelling story. And we, as an audience,
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tend to identify to that hero or some event in the story that helps us forget the boredom of real life.
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I believe this is one of the secret ingredients that make the movies industry so successful.
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People need to forget about their daily life because they believe it's boring.
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In the timespan of <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/by-the-numbers-the-length-of-feature-films/2/">159 minutes</a> they are thrilled in something more exciting, adventurous, romantic ...
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everything that does not seem to exist in "real life".</p>
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<p>I love movies and cinema, and I really enjoy seeing a good one. However, something have always kept me a bit skeptical about the whole phenomenon.
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In my sight, real life is more exciting, there's an infinite amount of possibilities
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and outcomes to what you do. Everything seem possible when you stop picturing your
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actions and ideas <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeSLFgcKkw">in the way society expects you to do</a>. This feeling has started filling me since I was a teenager.
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It forged my personality and made me what I have been until now. People nowadays call it being an "entrepreneur" or "hacker".
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I don't think any word could describe the way I feel about my life and my role in the current society.</p>
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<p>I left my country 6 years ago and came to France in order to study computer science.
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I had been to medical school before, trying to follow my dad's footsteps.
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My path through my studies has been the same thing as it has always been my whole life:
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trying new things, never settle down at the same place, always thinking of the next project
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and moving forward. As an immigrant student I have done many little jobs, worked for big IT
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companies ( although I was not always allowed to ), joined a prestigious computer school club
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where I learned so much about sysadmin in system engineering and met many people.
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Still, I was always feeling something missing. Deep inside, there was a voice who has been there since the beginning.
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It kept telling me what
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I needed to do. I was working as a system engineer on a short term contract when a friend
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(at the time) offered me to start our own startup where I would be responsible for all the
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technical aspect. When I think about it now, the idea was not that attractive,
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there was no business plan and we were just a team of three guys without any previous experience in
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the startup business. It was one of the most important choices I had to do.
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Either decline a comfortable job offer which would've let me acquire a legal worker
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status and finish my studies working with cool technologies, and maybe even travelling.
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Or jumping right into the startup adventure, with no guaranty of success, no market
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research whatsoever, and no immigration status possible especially in France which
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is about ten years far from a Startup Act .</p>
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<p>Flash forward, I am co-founder and CTO at jib.li. Many things happened since and
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long story made short, we made a pivot and had new people in the team.
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I will share this story with my friend and co-founder Ryadh in an other article,
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a story which I think every foreign entrepreneur to France should know about.
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For the time being, Jib.li has been launched 6 months ago, had some worldwide press and
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media coverage, and is currently one of the first crowd-shipping/shopping platforms.</p>
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<p>Then comes last week. Something big happened. Actually it was a succession of
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events that, taken alone could be considered probable, but thinking they would happen all
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at the same time in the lapse of a few days made them what we define as "life changing" events.
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They are totally unrelated, each having a huge impact in some aspect of my personal and
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professional life. But still, they are all connected together with the same variable
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that makes them what I feel like being born in a new life.</p>
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<p>Each one of these events could be considered a failed, depressing twist filled with despair.
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In fact, they made me feel that way and I could barely sleep at night, always feeling a pain
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in my stomach like I have been punched in the nuts. I am not enough comfortable to talk about
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the personal one and the next articles will explain the rest of the story. What really matters
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here is the key denominator, something I can now consider, with confidence, as the most important factor in any
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future project and my whole new life. I am talking about <em>Trust</em>. Of course, it seems obvious !
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Well I taught it was too.</p>
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<p>The history of humanity has been shaped by trust. You can't build a pyramid if
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you can't trust the architect. You can't build an army when people don't trust you. You can't learn if you don't
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trust a teacher or a mentor, and you can't found a family if you don't trust a partner...
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It is something that must be earned. Something you can't afford with money and power. Something you can
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fake with lies and charisma . I am now convinced the only way to find trust is to look for <em>Passion</em> inside people and that every human
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being have to learn it the hard way. You must be betrayed in order to acknowledge it's worth. I sincerely hope for
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you it won't be the same as me, but I can say for sure this was my life changing event.
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Anything that will come after will be different and I am very thankful I was given this precious lesson in my youth.</p>
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<p>I don't know what words could describe the aftermath. I feel new, free, light.
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I feel a strength rising inside me, like the power to shape the future. I still have so many
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things to learn and experience, and the pains that come with it. <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00ynyl7">Entropy</a> makes
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life beautiful, the uncertainty built in the entire universe makes our lives much more interesting than any Hollywood movie.</p>
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<p>Good luck to all those who create, make and change things, and for anyone else, just listen to the voice speaking to you.</p>
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