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Erik: What role has reflection played in shaping your personal growth?
Mark: Reflection is certainly very important. One of the great things that I really love
about producing content for the internet is that everything is very, very measurable.
At the end of every month, I put together a report for our team to show our team's performance
over that month in terms of which stories were popular, which stories got shared a lot,
which videos got viewed the most. You know, really helping sort of us learn from our successes
and also taking a look at projects that we had high hopes for that maybe fell a little
bit flatter than we had originally pegged them to. So reflection in that particular
aspect is certainly very important to me on a professional level, understanding, learning
from our mistakes, helping to continue to grow for the future using the analytical tools
we have available to us to be able to help motivate the team, show them things that they
did well, and like I said, things that we continue to learn on. And my personal life
it's very important as well, you know, opportunities like this to sort of look back over the last
year of your career, things that you achieved, things that you hoped you'd achieve and maybe
didn't quite get there, I think that that's very important as well and it's—you know,
as someone who is sort of is constantly chronicling in their life on the internet through blog
posts and Twitter feeds, and Tumblr posts, and Facebook—things like that. It's always
fun for me to sort of go back every couple of months and sort of take stock of what's
happened in my life, be thankful, be appreciative for the blessings that I have, the friends
that I have, the relationships that I've made, both personally and professionally, and you
know, it's really I think important to take time to savor that stuff. That's not to say
to dwell on it or spend extensive amounts of time looking back at the past but, you
know, I'm a fan of nostalgia, and it's always good to look back at successes you've had
and things you've done well and use them as motivation for the future.