Monday - November 15th, 2010

As I mentioned yesterday night, I was thinking about how to enhance my career in software development last night when I went to bed, I woke up with an idea. It's not a new one. We all have done it in our schooling age. It's about repeating something over and over again until the thing becomes part of your nature. Repetition is applied to gain perfection in areas such as martial arts, music etc. But one may find it rather dull and uninteresting to apply it to enhance programming skills. Because mind needs novelty. It gets bored of doing same thing over and over again. So although I would be working on repetition outwardly, I would also be working on fixing this tendency of mind of getting bored. I am already working on my 3rd grader son to improve his math skills through repetition. Each week for 5 day in morning he is given a set math problems, although the problems are different, the pattern remains the same until he is ready to go to the next level. No brainer right? But the challenge comes with an adult like me when I try to ingrain something by repetition in an area like programming. Normally one would think repetition is against creativity, but then explain this to me - how come artists are still creative when they have been drawing same lines or playing same notes and practicing same thing over and over again? So I am sure there is more to it than appears to be. And I am willing to find out. After all this is my journey towards an unfettered mind and I have to be my own teacher. So I would be working on the outside such as my programming skills, but also at the same time I would be working on my mind. I would like to talk more about unfettered mind and my desire for it the next time.