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Discussion on: Maintaining Motivation

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James Hickey

Def. been there, done that.

My advice from experience is:

  • Sometimes you just need to not code at all for a few weeks
  • Try to start investing into other people - whether by promoting them online, creating a newsletter that helps people, or building a small tool that you know will help people. Helping real people and interacting with the community is something I've found just never get's tired.

But building side-projects and coding def. can burn me out. I've had to take a number of breaks (still kinda on one right now...)

I'd super-duper highly recommended this article that gives a plan for you to figure out "what you should be working on". It's really life-changing...really...seriously - if you do it.