As programmers, IT develops so fast and updates so fast that we have to learn new technologies. When we hit a brick wall with a new technology, we constantly complain and undermine our confidence until we lose it and start clinging to our phones to pass the gloomy days. This is also my state, I believe that many programmers have this state, so how to avoid it?

1. Ask for help

 

It’s the best thing to do when you have someone to ask, but the truth is you don’t have one, so it’s better to find a video on a learning website or add a tech group.

When you don’t know much about a technology, watching instructional videos can be a way to grow faster.

2. Combine work and rest

Lenin said: rest is for better work, rest will work.

Programmer this industry is brain industry, tired has three stages, the first body tired, the second brain tired, the third heart tired, and programmers often walk in the second brain tired track, often on the edge of collapse. This requires programmers to work together, here you can recommend an APP: tomato attack.

The Pomodoro technique is a simple time management method developed by Francisco Cirillo in 1992. It is a more micro time management method than GTD.

Using the Pomodoro technique, select a task to be completed, set the pomodoro time for 25 minutes, and focus on the task without doing anything unrelated to the task until the pomodoro clock goes off. Then draw an X on a piece of paper and take short breaks (5 minutes will do), taking extra breaks every 4 pomodoro periods.

The Pomodoro technique is a great way to increase productivity and create an unexpected sense of accomplishment.

3. Complain less

Here’s a story.

A person named Castin, get up in the morning when washing, with his high-grade watch on the side of the washing gargle, his wife then came in, afraid of the watch was wet with water, took the past on the table.

When the son got up and went to the table to get bread, he accidentally knocked his watch against the ground and broke it.

Castin felt sorry for his watch, complained loudly, beat his son, and cursed his wife in a black face. His wife was not convinced and said he was afraid of getting his watch wet. Kastin fumed that his watch was waterproof. Then they had a fierce quarrel.

Furious, He skipped breakfast and drove straight to the office. When he got there, he remembered he had forgotten his briefcase and had to hurry home to get it.

His wife was at work, his son was at school, and his keys were still in his briefcase.

He couldn’t get in the door and had to phone his wife for the keys. As she hurried home, she knocked over a roadside fruit stall and had to pay a fortune to get away.

By the time he got the briefcase, Kastin was more than 20 minutes late and had been severely criticized by his boss. He was in a very bad mood. Before leaving work, I had a quarrel with my colleague over a trivial matter. The wife was also deducted from the month’s attendance award.

The son of the day to participate in the baseball game, was expected to win the championship, but because of the mood is not good play, the first inning was eliminated.

This is where the famous “Festinger’s Law” comes from, a theory developed by American social psychologist Festinger that demonstrates the possibility of a chain reaction that can go out of control because of a small event.

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to what happens to you.

Most of the time, 10% is out of our control: the social environment, the family we are born into, the rules and salary levels at work, what other people say and do.

These established facts often do not turn into the ideal state of our imagination, complaining of course is useless, but will worsen the current environment.

And there are things that we can control.

For example, the planning of life goals, the love of career, their own education level and learning ability, as well as their work environment and living city, and so on.

All of these things, if you choose to do it and do it right, can be changed by your mindset and behavior to become 90% of what you control.

Yu Dan once said, “Complaining is a kind of inertia, a kind of evasion.”

Complaining is a sign of weakness. It means giving up your efforts and giving up control over your life. Change is about challenging difficult situations and empowering ourselves so that we can take control of our lives.

Complain and change, are two life direction, determine our future happiness index.

Conclusion:

Attitude determines height, and effort determines strength.