In my personal experience, many people (including yours truly) give up because we have vague ideas of what exactly great is. What exactly does it mean by being

In my personal experience, many people (including yours truly) give up because we have vague ideas of what exactly great is. What exactly does it mean by being a great programmer? Peer adulation? LOCs per day ? I believe that until anyone finds a decent enough definition of what great is for him/herself, it is rather hard psychologically to achieve anything resembling greatness. "If you can't measure it, you can't change it" Peter F Drucker.