While this applies to many things people do, i don't think it applies to programming. Programming is a continuous activity of concentration done over the course

While this applies to many things people do, i don't think it applies to programming. Programming is a continuous activity of concentration done over the course of 8 hours, 5 days a week, roughly 45 weeks a year. Meanwhile fighting of many kinds is something that happens in short bursts of extreme focus and excertion. In fact, programmers have to "fight" too, and it is highly different from their daily work: It is when the software is burning cash and they have to find the problem and implement a fix right now. Most programmers find that they deal with that extremely well, though it usually happens at the cost of the rest of the day.