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Use the full power of Your Brain to be a Better Developer 🧠❤️👩🏻‍💻

Sarthak Sharma on January 07, 2019

I'm going to tell you the recipe for a pill that will increase the power of your brain. Well, NO! Not that kind of pill. Also, this post is not ...
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Yannis •

Thank you very much for the tips, I really enjoyed this article!
To boost my productivity, organization and store my code snippets I use the app boostnote.io ! It’s like a Evernote for programmers, totally free and open source

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Nice app Yannis. Thanks for sharing. 😊

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Jason C. McDonald • • Edited

Excellent tips! I use most of these already, and I can guarantee they work.

Depending on my mood, lyrical music sometimes helps me focus better, strangely. (RED is one of my favorites.) That said, I just contributed some of my favorite instrumental albums to your soundtrack repo. (Seriously, go listen through Kai Engel, Sergey Cheremisinov, Andrew Seistrup, and Aaron Mist on FreeMusicArchive. Unbelievable stuff!)

I detailed some of my distraction-busting strategies in Attack of the Focus Leeches, which mirrors many of these tips.

Unfortunately, Hamster Time Tracker, which I used to rely on, is something of vaporware now. Time to build my own, I suppose. ;)

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Thanks for sharing awesome those soundtracks. 😊

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Louis-Saglio •

Why am I reading this instead of working on bug #317 ?

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

😂😂

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Selahattin Ünlü •

This one is the best comment lol :D

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Eugene Samonenko •

Throw out alcohol from your life

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Damn, totally forgot that one 😂

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Ankur Biswas •

Great article. I already followed some of these methods and I can definitely say that it did boost up my productivity. Like:-

  • I always found non-lyrical music is the key to focus better. That soundtrack repo already got my favourite soundtracks that I listen most often.
  • I always prefer the official documentation over Google.
  • I use journal for my ToDo's.
  • Use Pomodoro Technique. (not often)

I'm definitely going to try:-

  • Saving code snippets.
  • Drink more water.
  • Eat healthy.
  • Work out daily.
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Daragh Byrne •

I'm glad of the trick :) - if anyone wants more in-depth stuff about meditation, my articles section is a treasure trove (coder and meditation teacher here).

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Would love to check them. ☺️☺️

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Daragh Byrne •
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Pedro Piñera Buendía •

Thanks for writing this up. I agree with most of the tips that you shared.

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

😊

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catherine •

Great tips, Sarthak! :)

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Thanks Catherine 😊

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Kingsten Banh •

Thanks for sharing! I will start focusing on my sleep cycle because it is the most important part of life. Getting enough quality sleep to have a better start of the day.

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Exactly 😊

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Tony Tin Nguyen •

Thank you very much for this article. It's really helpful for me.

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Glad this could help😊

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Shilpa •

This is very effective for me.

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

That's why I told you all to follow this 😃 🔥

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Sanjay Ojha •

Thank you for the tips. Its very helpful. For focus, I love to listen nature music. Check noisli.com. You can mix sounds. I love the rain sound along with wind.

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Have used Noisli. Great product. Now I use Noizio.

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Kostas •

These are some nice tips.

Can you share the source of the food list in “4. Eat healthy”?

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Yeah sure, it was webMD.

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Shivtaj Virk •

great tips.I usually get distracted because of my phone.I'll definitely going to try
listed tips..

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

😊

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AxelleDRouge •

Thanks for the tips, and all your others posts. I'll use for Code Snippets, and I really like your Purpose Book.

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Thanks a lot Axelle. 😊😊

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Maykol Rypka •

Nice article!

I suggest you to read this book if you want to go hardcore... "Your brain at work by David Rock"

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

And here it goes to my reading list 😊

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Vaibhav •

Nice article ...gonna be beneficial for me

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Sarthak Sharma XenoX •

Thanks man.