Picking the correct background music can make a big difference to the ability to focus.
When I am working and need to focus I like to have music in the background.
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Going beyond what would normally be expected when coding
A lot of coding jobs can involve fairly "normal" tasks - create a page, write to and read from a database, add a new field to this screen. These tasks have been done numerous times by numerous developers around the world in different flavours.
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It can take one additional small thing to push something over the edge.
There is an idiom "the straw that broke the camel's back" which, according to Wikipedia, describes
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There is probably a whole load of stuff you remember that you have no need to and will never use again.
During a team call this morning, one of the engineers mentioned about the useless things he still remembers and how it would be good if the brain would clear them out.
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Sometimes it is difficult not to compromise and stick to what you need to.
I have just finished re-reading the book The Spark, a fictional account of a sports agent and his journey to learn about Cirque de Soleil from the inside.
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