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Discussion on: Dealing with anxiety, absent-mindedness, ineffectiveness as a developer

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Harit Himanshu

Oh boy! This is not unique to you, we all go through this feeling. It's common to all of us, that's what makes us HUMAN!

What we need to understand, that is this a "feeling", and feelings change moment to moment. We need to build awareness to separate our feelings from our actions. It tough, but worth it.

Some of the things that can help (and has helped me) are

  • Writing my thoughts on paper. This has helped "see" what's in my mind. This has helped in awareness building
  • Meditation, start with 5 mins/day and increase. I have been able to reach 19 min this way.

But then, I stopped doing as life happened and failed again in awareness building. However, the point is not to fail and see ourselves as failure, rather bring ourselves back up again and keep moving forward!

Happy to chat personally if you need someone to listen!
Thanks