I'm a powerlifter and programmer too, and I love your posts! I couldn't agree more with all of your points. I also want to add that it's helped teach me resilience and persistence - both of which come in handy when programming. With powerlifting, the goal is to push your limits and in that process you will sometimes hit your limits and fail a lift. You could just give up at that point, tell yourself you'll never lift X weight and take up yoga or something. OR you can keep working at it, keep practicing and refining your techniques until one day you finally nail it. In programming you are constantly learning new things and pushing your mental limits. Eventually you'll work on something that you just don't understand, pick up a framework that just doesn't make sense to you or create a production bug you didn't see coming - but if you take your failures in stride, learn from them and keep working at it, you will eventually achieve your goals 😁💪
I'm a powerlifter and programmer too, and I love your posts! I couldn't agree more with all of your points. I also want to add that it's helped teach me resilience and persistence - both of which come in handy when programming. With powerlifting, the goal is to push your limits and in that process you will sometimes hit your limits and fail a lift. You could just give up at that point, tell yourself you'll never lift X weight and take up yoga or something. OR you can keep working at it, keep practicing and refining your techniques until one day you finally nail it. In programming you are constantly learning new things and pushing your mental limits. Eventually you'll work on something that you just don't understand, pick up a framework that just doesn't make sense to you or create a production bug you didn't see coming - but if you take your failures in stride, learn from them and keep working at it, you will eventually achieve your goals 😁💪
Well said! And it's awesome to meet another female powerlifting developer! 💪