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Discussion on: Athletes train their physical abilities and their sports specific skills. How can developers do the same using that analogy?

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Sergiy Yevtushenko

Recently I've found article which suggests that coding uses same regions as speech. So it might be possible that learning new human languages would be helpful to improve coding performance (and perhaps vice versa).

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JC Smiley

Interesting

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Sergiy Yevtushenko

Perhaps this is just a coincidence, but my coding performance significantly increased when I learned couple of new languages.

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That makes perfect since. Like an athlete learning a different sports, the skills increase performance everywhere.