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Discussion on: What harmful habits do developers pick up over time?

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Ben Halpern

Here's one I suspect to be prevalent, or at least it's a bad one of mine:

Never not working on a problem in the back of your mind... Sometimes I keep an issue spinning around in my head all weekend when I'd be better off forgetting about it and coming back on Monday. This probably afflicts me particularly badly as an entrepreneur with a bit more at stake, but I've had this problem in most of my work forever.

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Mark Adamson

That's very true, and it's worse with working from home at the moment. It can mean that I'm not all there for family even if I'm not at my computer. Maybe the key is to take more time out to ponder things during the working day.

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Ben Halpern

In the last couple weeks I've been doing a mid-day workout... Which for me is a weighted-vest walk/light jog with an audiobook. Basically taking my audiobook/podcast habit and making it more of a workout.

The break is nice, and the exercise definitely helps my brain health and gives clarity.

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Mark Adamson

Googling weighted vest now ๐Ÿ™‚

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Ben Halpern

Yay!

Habits are hard to form, even when I had the idea to take on this routine, the vest sat around unused for several weeks before I truly kicked it in, but now I feel like I'm over the hump and really enjoying making time for it.

No approach/routine works for everyone, but I do think exercise really is about the best thing one can do with any number of feelings of stress, anxiety, etc.

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Mark Adamson

I agree, I need to build a replacement for the weekly parkrun as that made such a difference the last year but it won't start again any time soon I expect