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Comment on: What do you do when you have a loss motivation?

I know how a lot of people don't like to see links from Reddit, but I keep a couple of motivational pieces around for myself whenever I get bummed or burned out on anything. Maybe you can make use of them.

  1. My favorite piece of motivational advice (Reddit link, Veuwer alternative link)

  2. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Youtube link)

My personal advice:

  1. Do something productive every day. It doesn't matter how little it is, so long as you can get yourself to do something, you're still making progress.
  2. Take breaks for yourself whenever you need them. Exercise, mindfulness, or even meditation can all be good approaches to stress relief.
  3. Get enough sleep and don't try to binge at learning things; it'll make you burn out faster, and you won't retain the memory as well. Short periods of effort every day over a long period of time will always trump heavily focused, short-term effort. Neuroscience has backed this for a while now, and you can take a brief class about it here.
  4. If nothing else works, you might want to reevaluate your intentions and goals. Things may have changed, and you may have subconsciously realized that you'd rather be doing/learning something entirely different.
  5. Most of all, don't hate yourself or feel guilty over it. I've been there plenty of times, and it's never worth it.
5 10 Jul 2015 02:20 u/NondescriptLurker in v/programming
Comment on: Why this sub sucked on Reddit and how to make it not suck here

I think part of the problem is people actually assessing where their skill level is relative to arbitrary terms like 'beginner,' 'intermediate,' and 'advanced,' and that's not something exclusive to programming - it's rampant in most if not all fields. On one hand, you have the Dunning-Kruger effect, and on the other, you have the Impostor syndrome. Creating different subverses to categorize people of different skill levels adds undue stress on newcomers simply because many are uncomfortable in or unable to properly assess themselves.

I'd prefer to see /v/programming as a catch-all subverse, since it's likely the one that will have the highest visibility out of the programming-related subverses, but we need a comprehensive FAQ/wiki that answers common questions or links to other posts that do and provide a comprehensive list of resources, tools, and related subverses for people to explore at their leisure.

32 07 Jul 2015 15:58 u/NondescriptLurker in v/programming
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