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<h1><a href="/career-advice-software-developers-fitness-coach"> A Fitness Coach and the Software Developers </a></h1>
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<p>Elliott Hulse, a fitness coach, on the topic of
<a href="http://www.hulsestrength.com/1-exercise-increase-testosterone/">building muscles</a>,</p>
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<p>Your muscles need to be stressed to a point where they are <span class="caps">FORCED</span> to grow
bigger and stronger. Otherwise they will stay the same, seeing no need to
waste valuable energy on developing a bigger musculature. Something key to
remember, for any physical goal, is that the body will always take the path of
least resistance. Put it in an environment where <span class="caps">YOUR</span> <span class="caps">GOAL</span> is the only
possible outcome.</p>
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<p>To have big muscles you have to lift heavy weights. Heavier than what you can
lift easily. If you won’t push your body, it won’t develop. Forcing your body to
do the <em>impossible</em> is the only way to make it develop.</p>
<p>We all create a comfort zone around us. We build it, cherish it, come to rely on
it, and then we lock ourselves in. This is true for software development too.</p>
<p>You can never improve as a developer if you cage yourself in your comfort zone.
You may call your specific skills as your niche. You may proclaim that the your
programming language is the best and most powerful language ever created.</p>
<p>For what it’s worth, fall in love with your platform and become its ardent
worshipper. Your call! But you cannot improve this way.</p>
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<p>C was the first programming language I learned. After few months, I landed on my
first job where I kept developing softwares in C. For a long time I didn’t
bother to learn how to use a debugger at all. My excuse was something along
these lines, “I can debug all I want using log statements thrown all around the code.”</p>
<p>This was a good enough excuse for many. But I knew, deep down, the real reason
was that learning a command line debugger (<span class="caps">GDB</span>) scared me.</p>
<p>Each time I opened up a <span class="caps">GDB</span> tutorial, I would close the browser tab within few
minutes. “Gosh! What is this? The lingo is so alien. What the heck writer is
babbling about? Argh! I will never get it.”</p>
<p>I was afraid that I am facing something that I can never understand. “I have
reached my limits. Why add another item in my list of failures? Lets just drop
it so that I don’t have to feel so uncomfortable. My world is going just fine
without <span class="caps">GDB</span>.”</p>
<p>Don’t do what I did.</p>
<p>This approach may work for some time and in few cases. Unfortunately, this
attitude becomes persistent and turns into a habit. It begins to reflect, not
only in your programming, but in every aspect of your life.</p>
<p>In the same class where I learned C, several students gave up on C. Their
excuse, “C is not widely used. We are more interested in learning Java or C#.
These will offer us better job prospects.”</p>
<p>Guess what? They never came around to learn any of their favorite language.
First they gave up on pointers, and then C.
Same guys gave up on object-oriented programming introductory classes.
When C# classes started they weren’t ready for it at all.
Finally they stopped programming altogether.</p>
<p>Some took up graphic designing course, and rest took up
quality assurance. The attitude of shying away from difficult stripped
away their dreams.</p>
<p>If you want to improve, get out of your comfort zone. Pick something that
challenges you.</p>
<p>Do what you think you can never do in ten years, heck, in your life time.</p>
<p>Do whatever that makes you uncomfortable.</p>
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