Thats a hard one. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance talks about the concept of a gumption trap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumption_trap http://en.wiki

Thats a hard one. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance talks about the concept of a gumption trap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumption_trap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumption_trap and how we might get out of one. With me, its usually normal to feel "down" for some amount of time from time to time. I usually use this down time to sleep and relax, im probably not gonna get any real work don, so i might as well rest. I have a lot of non coding "projects" for times like this. Usually its a book im reading a few pages at a time, or a list of tasks i might as well do NOW, since i have noting better to do. Maybe a list of bands i should check out. Basically anything that goes in the "check out later when you have more time" category, this is the time. So you do that stuff and relax and wait for it. It usually lasts a between a few hours to a whole week in my case. I don't mind it, im in school, so i can actually afford not to write code, i just show up for lectures and try to think of cool stuff to work on, eventually it comes to me. Actually im in such a moment WRIGHT NOW, which is unfortunate, because the little free time for coding i have is on weekends.