"You know in Mining Everyone in the mines knows about drill and blast, but none of them can really tell you a scientific solution. You'll always see people hiding behind the failures of drills and blasts to hide their professional shortcomings, but you must never look back at them. You just have to keep doing the best job you can for the best results, through constructive criticism and not the vain cries of certain colleagues. But you always have to listen, but don't practice everything you're told. If your job was easy, you wouldn't have been there before them". He said. I remember the day it rained 70mm during the day and the pit was flooded and no equipment could work in it. I had two machines on a drilling block and the holes were falling we couldn't do 10m an hour and the pump was up pumping for 2 days without much result so I took the decision with my field teams to blaster about 90 percent of the block we'd been able to get before the rain. We made the decision in 6 hours, we shot the block and after the shot the mine dried up in 1 hour because the water gathered under the shot block and the next day everyone thanked the dewatering team and not a single word to my drilling and blasting team who had put in a lot of effort. Not only did we save money through the fuel consumption of the drilling and pumping machines, but also through the reduction in consumables used by the drilling machines and the loss of production due to the cessation of mining in the pit, which was also a loss for the contractor and the customer. People will always judge drill and blast by your failures, not your successes. Sometimes you'll give both(quality and quantity) at the same time and these same people will act as if they've seen nothing, but you must never rely on the visual judgments of these ignoramuses about your work, but listen to those who give constructive criticism and seek to understand the hows and not the whys of things. Once and for all, never rely on recognition to do what you do best, and you don't have to go into detail, because they'll never understand, and their aim isn't to understand, but only to keep on criticizing your work in order to hide their shortcomings. When you decide to drill and blast, you decide to be the focus of criticism and pressure for no reason. But you must always use scientific and professional reasoning in everything you do. One day we told me: Mohamed, you always want things to be the way you want them. I replied: you don't plan to fail, you plan to execute. That's why I'm always pushing my plans. People confuse years of work with years of experience. Someone who has spent 5 years observing an activity and someone who has spent 5 years doing it don't have the same experience. Doing 5 years of university is harder than doing 5 years of applying the things studied during 5 years of university. Drilling and blasting is not a handwriting but a reality. Outside Box Thinker