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False Enthusiasm and Frustration hit me hard...

Nice to know that i am not the only one who experiences such things. It just freakin randomly hits me every now and then. Today for example i experienced Depression, Lack of Focus, and Frustration. And answering your question on how i deal with it, i simply don't/can't. So i am sure a shrink dedicated to programmers would be helpful. Who's up for it? :)

Last edited by mrmat (30-07-2010 01:28:01 am)

Yeah I experience frustration and deep fear when working on something really critical and I am running out of time. I the final days while I was working on my mobile project and I really felt time is running away and problems starting popping out one after another I really felt pain inside me, pain in my heart. But thank God everything went good and I fixed everything.

Another bad thing is some laziness and lack of concentration/focus which really kills my productivity. To deal with concentration/focus problems usually I try to start avoiding the "means of mass distraction", the social sites.

Third problem, is inability to concentrate on a single project at a time, I am always working on multiple ones since every time I reach almost the end or middle of one a new idea pops out and I want to do it, and the chain goes on...

Last edited by AymanFarhat (30-07-2010 07:17:57 pm)

I did work before in an office, and I used to stay at home (in spite of some others' discouragement) whenever I needed to concentrate on work.
What I've been working at personally is trying to figure out the internal issues rather than work on the environment (though it definitely could have an effect for sure).

I guess plugging out (internet) could help a lot (one of the external factors). It all depends on what you're trying to do.

Currently my projects are spun out of my head as I am not doing any major project for anyone. I get really tensed up about a few issues like:
- Getting stuck in presentation details when the idea is really simple model wise.
- Getting stuck translating a model into code when the various pieces of code are so god damn similar but yet each have their own nuisance as to make it extremely (read uneconomic) to refactor.

I work in an obsessive mode, so pondering about two projects never seems to happen with me. However, it is extremely hard (almost impossible) to take on multiple projects at the same time.

I have been really pondering about the use of methamphetamines just for the above reasons, to see if it can make a difference or not. (It's not because I want more performance, but because I require higher self satisfaction... One of the best mathematicians did use meth. (Paul Erdos)). I am not going to ask if anyone knows where to get it though :P

What have you tried? What happens? Another whole dimension to this is the group versus sole wolf style of development and how it affects performance.

A point I'd like to elaborate would be the false enthusiasm which could put you into some weird places with people. I'd get so excited about an idea and get to take in and make promises about it to some good people that I randomly bump into in the internettosphere. It happens slowly that interest wanes out gradually or sometimes instantly after an initial punch through. It's awkward when you become friends with those people but you didn't go through what you've promised.

[Didn't know it will end up with such a mouthful, boy can I blabber].

Last edited by arithma (31-07-2010 09:21:43 am)