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> It's the same if you want to be a great pianist. You and your upmodders are confusing two separate concepts. Repetition is important to train muscle memory
by 010101 17y ago
> It's the same if you want to be a great pianist.
You and your upmodders are confusing two separate concepts.
Repetition is important to train muscle memory and motor coordination. The same is true for basketball and all sorts of other endeavors that require "mindless repetition". Note the key word, mindless.
This is NOT true of creative endeavors. You can't "make" yourself come up with good ideas on demand. You can force yourself to write, but it will probably be junk and a waste of time as you didn't have anything you were inspired to say, or an idea you needed to work out in your head.
Of course it's still an important skill to be able to focus on tedious parts in programming, as that's how you ship.
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoMost of the work of writing is just sitting down and writing. Of orienting the brain toward the idea that, whether or not it would prefer doing something else, it is going to write. You say "You can't "make" yourself come up with good ideas on demand". Which is sort of true, but first of all you have to get over the idea that the point of any one session is to produce a good idea. You have to open the channel and keep it open. That requires constant practise. And you have to stop being all precious about what comes out. There will be a lot of crap. That's not a bad thing.