On Sunday, May 12, 2013 3:34:22 PM UTC-4, atkaaz wrote: > > Hi. I've been meaning to ask (all of)you, how do you get moral support? > How do you put yourself into that mood so that you're happy/willing to > program? What motivates you to do it? Is it the people you surround > yourself with or the financial support? Are they enough to subconsciously > motivate you? What if you had no friends/contacts but you had time? > > Unusual question for this ML, I know, so I won't expect (m)any answers. > Thanks. >
This may be tangential to your question - but then maybe it is not: I learned that the better you are at something, the more fun it is. Playing "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on a musical instrument is not that exciting, even if it's the first time you managed it. Playing something from Bach or Led Zeppelin is fun. Learning to swim for the first time is not as exciting as finishing your first one mile swim. And the same holds for intellectual pursuits. I had no interest in writing software outside my day job for the first six or eight years working. But through a strange series of events I was effectively forced to improve my skills from "able to adequately complete assigned tasks" to "competent". I may be the least skilled person on this list, but I'm twice the developer I was ten years ago. And once I moved past basic very minimum competence, I discovered that this work can be interesting - more than interesting, it can be entertaining. My insight, shamelessly stolen from Cal Newport, is that people don't try to find a passion that suits their talent. That's not now it works. You get so good at something that you enjoy it, and then it becomes your passion. -Mike -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
