You hear a lot of books and videos mention a lot of things about habits these days. I believe that’s worth doing because habits are behaviors that we do consistently on auto-pilot without thinking too much about them, whether we like them or not.
As such, we need to be aware of unproductive habits and only build productive ones.
To help with that, I recently published an article on TowardsDataScience publication that I hope can help with that.
Here is a short excerpt that you can read from it:
About 40 to 45 percent of what we programmers do every day is something we do on autopilot: brushing our teeth, getting a cup of coffee in the morning, opening our emails the moment we sit at our work desk, and many other things.
These habits save us a lot of time and energy in our day-to-day lives and are very important for the overall quality and achievement of our daily tasks.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has the habit of wearing the same clothes to work every day, as he notices it helps him save up energy. “I’m in this really lucky position, where I get to wake up every day and help serve more than a billion people. And I feel like I’m not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous about my life.”
Microsoft founder Bill Gates does the dishes every night, as this habit can reduce stress, boost creativity, and help the brain to wander and engage in creative problem-solving.
It’s an article that you can read in 12 minutes. Here is the friendly link that you can use to read it.
I hope you benefit from it.
