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Jean-Michel ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Fayard • Edited

Awesome question

In general, I would say that I went from failure to failure without loosing my enthousiasm... which is what Churchill described as the true meaning of success.

In the details

  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท => ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช I tried to live in Paris, France. Didn't work for me. I moved on and I'm now since 5 years a proud Berliner
  • ๐Ÿ’’๐Ÿ‘ฐ I went through painful relationship issues and ended up finding a woman I married
  • ๐Ÿค’ I had terrible depression crisis and survived. It feels great to be alive!
  • ๐Ÿ“ฑI struggled to become a professional Android developer. It took me years to realize that in fact it was the platform in fact that not well designed and plagues with terrible conventions and documentations.
  • ๐Ÿ“ต I moved away from Android and don't want to be put in a box anymore. Specialization is for insects
  • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป After years of seeing others do open-source, I became a prolific contributor and started my own project, which has worked quite nicely since one year and I have exciting plans going forward
  • ๐ŸŽค I also started giving speeches at meetups and want to do more of it
  • ๐Ÿ™‰๐Ÿ™ˆ๐Ÿ™Š I became better at understanding my needs, at communicating, at being flexible like water when it didn't really matter, but assertive and direct when it was something important for me
  • ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต I became fluent in English, German and Spanish. I also learned a bit of Italian, Esperanto and Japanese.
  • ๐Ÿ—พ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด I had life-changing trips in Colombia and in Japan
  • โœ๐Ÿป I started writing after lots of years reading what other people had to say
  • ๐ŸŽน๐ŸŽธ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ๐ŸŽถ I learned to play guitar (I already could play piano) and to sing better
  • ๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ’ƒ๐Ÿฝ I learned lots of dance, from Salsa to Argentine Tango
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Andrew (he/him)

It sounds like you overcame some incredible challenges, Jean-Michael. Tu es une inspiration!

Quelle type de musique joues-tu ร  la guitare?

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Jean-Michel ๐Ÿ•ต๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ Fayard

Health issues was the hardest part,
and the catalyst for much of the rest.

J'adore la musique d'Amรฉrique du Sud et d'Espagne.
Salsa, Cumbia, Tango, Bumbuco, ...