Few common attributes I've seen in some of the master programmers I've had the privilege to work with, * write lots and lots of code as beginner till some prog

Few common attributes I've seen in some of the master programmers I've had the privilege to work with, * write lots and lots of code as beginner till some programs live in the muscle memory of your fingers * humility, be easy on yourself; no one makes it in the first jump * find better programs and copy but never paste, as a beginner always key-in your programs * keep a count of the lines you write and the time you take to write (reach 100k lines, this is to motivate yourself) * make programming habit * seek better programmers and study their code * always go from code to theory >>Whereas, I find myself going for almost academic perfection (i.e read all docs first) / mastery. I suffered from the same problem. The key for me was to say to myself, it's ok to write non-perfect programs, it's ok to fail, in fact it's a must to fail, humility, humility, humility is the key virtue for a true master programmer.