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copied!<p><b>"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea."</b></p> <p>you don't have to read my ramblings; just watch <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo" rel="nofollow noreferrer">The Last Lecture</a> to get the point I'm trying to make.</p> <p>For programming, I fully believe that <b>Creativity</b> is that "endless sea". Creativity is not only healthy (<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=iyux5gD2iZ4C&pg=PA145&lpg=PA145&dq=research+that+creativity+is+healthy&source=bl&ots=2SvSCbUnAi&sig=cWi5InK0Tr4MlbFZ92_lu9rCZ74&hl=en&ei=qPiNSvrAFYb0sgPy_uHrCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=&f=false" rel="nofollow noreferrer">research</a>), but it can be what makes you <em>alive</em>! To be able to see a world in your head, and then to persevere until you have made it is quite a glorious feeling. And by "world" I don't mean a MMORPG world or something (though it could be that), I mean whatever it is that <em>you</em> dream that you want done.</p> <p>Also, all pain is subjective to hope/meaning/purpose. Programming will be a pain in the ass sometimes (in fact, so will life), but for those who fixate on a deeper satisfaction/joy/etc, there will actually be a <em>reason</em> for enduring the pain of learning and the pain of sheer grit and willpower to keep coding/debugging/etc</p> <p>I know beyond any shadow of a doubt that the reason I am whatever good I am at programming, it is because very specific friends and professors believed in me, and tried to impart the same yearning for the vast and endless sea.</p> <p>Perhaps, this is not applicable to your situation. If not, then no biggy; I can afford the cost it will be to my site's reputation. But everything I said is still true. :)</p> <p>btw, the quote is from Antoine de Saint Exupéry: <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint_Exup%C3%A9ry</a></p>

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