As you know, I've always loved drawing, so I was sure I wanted to be an artist or a designer. The problem arrived when I grew up and I discovered my passion for engineering.
It was difficult to mix both of my passions, as I still wanted to be a designer. At the same time, I was afraid of technology, as all I knew was paper and pencil, so thinking about having to design in a computer scared me.
I needed to burn all my bridges and deal with technology, as it was the only chance I had to continue with my love to design and studying an engineering.
Today, I'm able to use many design programs -AutoCad, SolidWorks, Rhinoceros...- and I have to admit I love them all.
Technology is indispensable these days. It widen your possibilities, allowing you make a design faster than ever before. What's more, now I'm not anymore afraid of not liking the result, as modelling programs allow you to make mistakes and solve them moreless easily.
With this post I didn't want to convince you of the many utilities of using technology. Not at all. I wanted to show how wrong I was and how profitable has been starting to learn what I thought I hated.
When I was in high school I hated computer programs, but only because I'd never used one, and that happens to all of us in too many fields. We shouldn't create our own barriers and try to convince ourselves that they are real, that we can't do it, we aren't good at it or just that we don't like it. It's all in our mind so.
If you are not capable, try again and again and again. And, only once you have tried a thousand times, you can say that it's difficult to do, but if you keep trying, you'll do it.