How to Overcome Procrastination as a Software Engineer

[@autohmae]

The best procrastination is watching a video on how to avoid procrastination. It's such a good excuse too ;-)

[@misternobody6798]

I have done this too many times so today I decided I will first get the task done and then watch the video, 12 hours later haven't started work and yet back to the video.

[@autohmae]

@@misternobody6798 stop reading the comments and get to work ! ;-)

[@mithushanjalangan5132]

I feel acted

[@mohammadikram687]

i just procrastinated on this video by clicking on save to watch later😂

[@frankprogrammer]

‘Sit down and ship it’ will be my new mantra. I definitely build too much resistance by over researching topics.

[@autohmae]

Yeah, you learn the most from doing and trying stuff out. You get more experienced and a better understanding of what works and doesn't work. And you can iterate.

[@BoomChockolaca]

*"Shut up and support Hussein"* I said to myself and made a small donation for all the hard work he's doing for all of us. Think about it, 1-2$ doesn't take much from you, but shows appreciation for his fantastic job (making a video is a task which requires fight with procrastination as well)

[@hnasr]

❤️❤️ thank you for your support, just by watching you guys are already supporting me , and yes! I procrastinated making this video too 😅

[@EmileAI]

Some people dream about their future achievements, they are ambitious and it feels good. I have nothing against that, I do it myself. But they talk too much about it and 6 months later they are still doing so and they never really started. Sometimes our brain rewards us when we lie to ourselves when we see our self already done with the job. And because it's rewarding we keep doing it. I remember one friend of mine who said she wanted to work at google in cybersecurity. She didn't know how to code but seemed passionate about it, had ambitions and plenty of time before her. I liked her mindset. 3 months later I ask her what she had done and if she had started programming or learned more about cybersecurity. She answered me that no, she had never made the first step. But it was still her goal and she was passionate about it. She had plenty of time to do so during her 3 months. I mean, if you really want to do something and feel good about yourself (in my opinion), the best way to do so is by getting started. Learning how to achieve your dream, that's the quest. For me, in programming at least, the first step is always to google my questions. Googling really is a skill and it seems that a lot of people don't do that, they think that someone or the system they are part of (for example their college) will teach them what they want one day. Sometimes they are lucky and sometimes not. Being passive and waiting for others to do your job for me is not really being mature and having a good work ethic. It's a really bad habit because one day you won't have those people or this environment and you'll feel lost. Searching on the internet how to do something, realizing how rewarding it is to do so because you can see that you developed some skills or gained new knowledge that in return broadened your view on the world and/or subject... it's really important. Each step you feel more structured, more armed to achieve your goal. With each step, you transform a little bit of your dream into reality. As I said before, all of this is my point of view and I can be wrong. But I do really feel that step 0 for many and myself are realizing how they lie to themselves. Sometimes it can be hard... I recently realized this about one big dream I have. Sometimes it's really hard to wake-up but we have to do it. Dreams were given to us, if we don't do anything they will die. Now, whether or not a dream has to stay as is, is another question. Thanks for the video btw, I always feel more armed to achieve my dreams when I watch you. Your videos really do broaden my horizon about the back-end. I have fallen in love with it. I'm currently watching your beginner level playlist about the back-end, taking notes, and doing some researches haha Really exciting stuff

[@hnasr]

Well said! You summarized it well, Just get started 👍

[@ashik_mahmud1995]

Just love watching you talk man...you are awesome. Thanks for all your contents, it'll greatly benefit me to become a backend developer. Wish you all the best...Keep on being awesome. Love from Bangladesh.

[@hnasr]

❤️❤️ all love to my subs from 🇧🇩

[@mythacker4365]

@@hnasr

[@benevans1377]

I think a really good thing that has helped me is starting off the task with either bullet points (like a specification document) or mini milestones to give myself a sense of direction and progress so I don't give up halfway through as I feel like I haven't made any progress

[@hnasr]

I like this approach too 👍

[@shreysom2060]

You are a mind reader i was thinking that i am becoming lazy from wfh now thankyou so much Hussein 😄

[@rajatsharma5360]

I recently discovered your channel....loving it ❤️. Keep up the good work man.🙏🏻

[@andreikashin]

Check Hussein's Udemy courses - High Scored Best Sellers

[@mythacker4365]

lol, the Same happened to me a few months ago... Now I watch his video most of the time

[@achybuns]

Awesome video that's straight to the point. Would be nice to have more of such content mixed in with the technical stuff ☺️

[@oscarbarajas3610]

I give a like before start the video 😂. You are a high quality human and software engineer!

[@brookrichardson1373]

When I find myself procrastinating I create a new thing to procrastinate about. For example, I have found myself watching my fifth episode of an anime when I know that I should be writing a report. So I give myself another task that I don't want to do. That might be to do some house cleaning or edit a video, and I tell myself that I don't need to do that thing, if I write a part of my report. This works because we often get fixated on a task and have an emotional aversion to, so creating another experience to avoid is a workable coping strategy. If you find yourself suffering from procrastination a lot then you might be suffering with some kind of mild experiential aversion you should address.

[@PiyushDangreIndia]

OK I've saved this video. Will watch it later :)

[@Finn-jp6pn]

Looking sharp. Thanks for the video!

[@khanriza]

The pain of discipline or the pain of regret. Your choice.

[@hstivggfghyhgfg8359]

it seems like it's a personality trait that some people suffer severely from. If you know about the MBTI where perceiver suffer the most of

[@arunr2265]

Hi Hussein, Can you please do a video on the differences between logical and physical replication in databases?

[@hnasr]

I think I made a video about replication using postgres which defaults to physical replication by pushing the WAL, You have access to it as a member, kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5Kppmp3hb-Eo7s Logical replication is pushing sql statements instead , I talked about that in my uber video

[@arunr2265]

@@hnasr Thanks a lot bro, it helps. is mysql binlog replication similar to WAL of postgres

[@_SoundByte_]

Awesome talk Hussein !

[@hnasr]

Thanks Swapnil! (L)

[@anshushandilya2934]

"You should ship creative works". Thank you for sharing such an amazing video. What's the seth's book name you told at 7.41?

[@hnasr]

The Practice, he just published it Thanks 😊

[@yungifez]

Yessss finally I've been procrastinating learning laravel

[@mosup5007]

Lol I am procrastinating now by watching this instead of watching your database course which is more than great 😁😊

[@programmerrdai]

Great Content Keep up the good work

[@raulcattelan4506]

Thank you

[@sergeyfilat4238]

Good Idea about being professional

[@srjshapthnktl4978]

Assign a Fibonacci series value to the problem. Make it simpler. And see if that propels action and stops procrastination. Repeat.

[@srjshapthnktl4978]

Ask yourself what progress has been made, however small it seems, what's the golden line that you see so far and then what's the next tiny thing you are willing to do in 3 minutes. Or even for 2 minutes, or atleast for one minute.

[@thearchibaldtuttle]

Good video, will watch it later! Joke aside! Set concrete, small and achievable goals to start with!

[@TheYuran2016]

will watch this one later

[@awan1475]

Great sharing! 👍🏻

[@ShrikantSonone]

I will watch this video tomorrow.

[@SanjeevKumar-nc2rt]

I will like your comment tomorrow ☺️

[@alexanderkomeiji]

Don't wanna be that person, but would be it possible to limit/compress the sound a little bit? Weak headphones/speakers would really benefit from it. Especially if you ended up with such. Discussing the topic, I can't emphasize enough how important is to maintain the balance between researching and doing the actual thing, because in on the one side you may find yourself stuck for months not knowing that the good or better option exists, that is, when lacking fundamentals or a comprehensive overview, on the other side, the thing not shipped yesterday can't be shipped tomorrow - tomorrow will be the thing of tomorrow. Cheers!

[@hnasr]

Thanks Alex, I appreciate it and I agree with you my audio is bad and I recently upgraded my setup and paying more attention to compression and I hope I deliver higher quality in future videos. Thanks for your insight too

[@harshranjan3476]

Please make a video on Wireguard

[@TheLostBijou]

I've been meaning to watch this for nearly a week now. I only wish I was joking!

[@TheMulialia]

Added to "Save to Watch Later"...

[@professortrog7742]

I will watch this later

[@yelle8647]

I'll watch this video later.

[@ankitbrijwasi9902]

Can we get a video on how we can secure user media files on a django server with nginx???

[@rahuldeepattri9244]

Thanks!

[@rum81]

My procrastination follows a recursion pattern

[@srjshapthnktl4978]

Aak yourself what is the next single and simpler action that you are willing to do to stop the inactive spell.

[@felixraj4721]

Is it a sword on top of the shelf

[@EmileAI]

Yeah that's why he is always making videos, if he isn't working hard enough it will kill him

[@TheYuran2016]

I have another problem. I loved coding, but after 5+ years as SE I can not stand it anymore. It's boring, it's difficult and so on. What are your thoughts on it? What should I do?

[@BoomChockolaca]

seems like you've kinda burnt out. have you tried putting more time to hobbies? maybe find another job to change your routine, maybe find another position with another programming language, I don't know. psychotherapy works fine as well.

[@TheYuran2016]

@@BoomChockolaca I actually changed, honestly don't like it either. I think it can be lockdown, I feel I am getting crazy every day. But yes, I am probably burned out. The funny part I can not even stop, because I don't know how to do anything else. I am still kind of in a good performance, but I need to push hard all the time to work.

[@BoomChockolaca]

​@@TheYuran2016 I know the feeling and it's shite indeed. Is it possible to take a long vacation to take a rest, have a good sleep? maybe 2-3 weeks? I had a similar feeling that I was super tired of everything and work gave me only negative emotions (I worked as a senior sysadmin / team lead). After a long vacation it didn't become great, but it became at least bearable and I got some stamina for it., I was able to set more boundaries or maybe switch to something.

[@hnasr]

You got great comments, Ill add that it’s totally normal to not like coding, ask your self is there anything else in software engineering that you like? Design , architecture, UX, testing, documentation.. there are so much areas that you can excel at without writing code.

[@TheYuran2016]

@@hnasr yes, trying to find myself these days. Honestly, I am thinking more about engineering management or product management. But I also would like to wait, I noticed that fatigue from these happened after i had to work from home because of covid. Never liked it, when I go to the office I actually can manage it and focus better.

[@hardikp5192]

But that katana tho🙄🙄🔥🔥💯💯

[@micheleforese2123]

Mhh.... I'll watch it tomorrow...

[@mazdaknazemi8207]

bro please provide one deep investigation of http2 with nodejs and how of how, how do it on server with like haproxy or nginx or whatever ... , as simple as possible but in prod mode. ty

[@hnasr]

I think I made one kzbin.info/www/bejne/mGSYdZawbpZ8qqc

[@mazdaknazemi8207]

@@hnasr ty i am going there

[@dinushkam2444]

just started new web app and this video comes up... heeeheee

[@rmdn]

Watching this video as an escape 😂

[@danielkrajnik3817]

you are turning into an attention grabbing clickbait