No. I've always tried forcing myself to enjoy Leetcode-type puzzles and coding challenges and have always walked away 1) feeling miserable, and 2) doubting my abilities as a developer. I know that I'm good at dev. I'm just not (always) good at these types of problems, and that's obviously okay (to the rational part of my brain—my ego thinks otherwise).
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No. I've always tried forcing myself to enjoy Leetcode-type puzzles and coding challenges and have always walked away 1) feeling miserable, and 2) doubting my abilities as a developer. I know that I'm good at dev. I'm just not (always) good at these types of problems, and that's obviously okay (to the rational part of my brain—my ego thinks otherwise).
I can totally relate to that. I don't do them often, but when I do, there is always one rated as "easy" and I'm ending up questioning my existence :D