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Chris Maunder10-Mar-20 6:15
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I train for cycling a lot, and I know there are a bunch here who head to the gym or push themselves at whatever sport they choose to subject themselves to, and one thing that's critical for achieving goals is grit. The ability to just plow on through whatever mental, physical or environmental obstacle is in your way and just push on regardless.

Mindless masochistic stupidity, it's also been called, but I choose to ignore those particular voices in my head.

It dawned on me, as I plow through page after page after page of HTML and CSS as part of a UI update, just how much grit a developer has to have sometimes. That point where you've put in 2 weeks solid on something and you realise you're not even halfway there. In fact you haven't even hit the rough bits. But you have to continue, and you have to, come Hell or high water, finish. Soon.

I would honestly rather site and watch a week of reality TV than grind my way through this but that's (somewhat thankfully, really) not an option.

What's the worst you've pushed yourself through?
cheers
Chris Maunder

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