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#2Introspection probably isn't a good way to assess this.
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#3Introspection probably isn't a good way to assess this.
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#4Introspection probably isn't a good way to assess this.
What assessment is appropriate? I feel strikingly similar to the OP.
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#5Introspection probably isn't a good way to assess this.
What assessment is appropriate? I feel strikingly similar to the OP.
> I feel strikingly similar to the OP
I'm glad you said that. If you feel comfortable doing so, could you share an anecdote? If a few people describe this from different angles perhaps more will come out of the woodwork and offer some solutions.
I think the person you were replying to was gently suggesting to see a psychiatrist.
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#6You need to speak with your doctor first. You may be out of shape, you may have a vitamin deficiency, you may have something complicated. The answer is in a doctor's office, not HN.
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#7You need to speak with your doctor first. You may be out of shape, you may have a vitamin deficiency, you may have something complicated. The answer is in a doctor's office, not HN.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
What assessment is appropriate? I feel strikingly similar to the OP.
> I feel strikingly similar to the OP I'm glad you said that. If you feel comfortable doing so, could you share an anecdote? If a few people describe this from different angles perhaps more will come out of the woodwork and offer some solutions. I think the person you were replying to was gently suggesting to see a psychiatrist.
Sure. This is an extreme example. I'm just starting my third of university software engineering and I've been dreaming up a moderately ambitious (but technically straightforward) CRUD web app since early in my first year. Since then I've flipped and switched between countless frameworks and languages, shelved, reassessed, unshelved, reshelved, and scrapped many basic prototypes. Only recently I've made some progress towards a prototype I'm happy with, but most of the motivation for that came from a recent successful launch of a service spookily similar to my concepts.
Not sure how relevant it is, but I've also had to retake multiple theory courses in my time at school so far. Calculus, linear algebra, discreet structures.
In terms of seeking professional help, I'm seeking some myself this week, though admittedly for social and general anxiety (related or not to my productivity, I'm not sure).
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#9"The time seems to be lost mostly to choosing between options (such as libraries to use), in deciding how to integrate those libraries into my source code, and in solving random hiccups. If the library just doesn't work for no apparent reason (like I always get a login failed message with no clear exception) there goes another three hours of debugging something that would have been an intuitive 10 second fix to a faster developer."
That sounds pretty normal: working with new code is always harder and slower than working with code that you know well. It sounds like you're constantly climbing that learning curve by using new libraries. What if for your next project, you just decided in advance to use the same libraries or frameworks that you used in your previous project? Then you'd have already worked out all the bugs and API oddities and can immediately start working on implementing the actual project.
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#10You may be chronically sleep deprived and not realize it. If that's the case you should try sleeping really consistently for a week and check the difference. Don't use an alarm, just be really disciplined about going to sleep early enough to wake up naturally. No caffeine or other stimulants.
The difference between a well rested brain and a sleep deprived one is night and day.