<story><title>How  to Burn Out Programming</title><url>http://blog.braegger.pw/5-ways-to-burn-out-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Where&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t exercise?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;d be pretty close to the top of my list.&lt;p&gt;A quick 2-3 mile jog around the neighborhood can help get me out of work-related funks. (I work at a home office, though, so it&amp;#x27;s easier for me to say &amp;quot;fuck it&amp;quot; and go do something sweaty in the middle of the day...)&lt;p&gt;My theory is that, since the only real item on your jogging to-do list is to put one foot in front of the other, your brain is freed up a bit to wander. Which is helped by the light stimulus of the changing environment around you. And this brain wandering helps shake out cobwebs and generally make you feel like a free individual again.&lt;p&gt;And, of course, it gives you an energy boost, which helps with the simple exhaustion side of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>christiangenco</author><text>Exercise, I&amp;#x27;ve found, is probably the single most important aspect of maintaining &amp;quot;happiness.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;The problem is I can&amp;#x27;t consistently muster the willpower to block out an hour long chunk of time to go running or workout at gym. I found a lovely compromise, though:&lt;p&gt;###
The Seven Minute Workout [1][2]
###&lt;p&gt;It removes literally every excuse my brain can come up with not to work out. Too cold outside? Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter, you&amp;#x27;re not going anywhere. Not enough time? The time you&amp;#x27;ll spend coming up with excuses is probably longer than 7 minutes. That&amp;#x27;s like two songs on the songza workout playlist. Don&amp;#x27;t feel like changing? Doesn&amp;#x27;t matter - you can do it in the clothes you&amp;#x27;re in. Can&amp;#x27;t find the equipment you need? All you need is a chair, a wall, and a 7x3 clear space of floor.&lt;p&gt;I figure it&amp;#x27;s much better to do this every day [3] than to go on a workout binge where I work out 2 hours at the gym on Monday, take Tuesday off, dread going there for 1.5 hours on Wednesday, take Thursday off, take Friday off because I&amp;#x27;m still sore from Wednesday, take the weekend off because it&amp;#x27;s the weekend, and then forget about working out again.&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/09/the-scientific-7-minute-workout/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;well.blogs.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;05&amp;#x2F;09&amp;#x2F;the-scientific-7-mi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.7-min.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.7-min.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;http://dontbreakthechain.com/share/christiangenco/last-four/96970&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;dontbreakthechain.com&amp;#x2F;share&amp;#x2F;christiangenco&amp;#x2F;last-four&amp;#x2F;...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>How  to Burn Out Programming</title><url>http://blog.braegger.pw/5-ways-to-burn-out-programming/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>chasing</author><text>Where&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t exercise?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;d be pretty close to the top of my list.&lt;p&gt;A quick 2-3 mile jog around the neighborhood can help get me out of work-related funks. (I work at a home office, though, so it&amp;#x27;s easier for me to say &amp;quot;fuck it&amp;quot; and go do something sweaty in the middle of the day...)&lt;p&gt;My theory is that, since the only real item on your jogging to-do list is to put one foot in front of the other, your brain is freed up a bit to wander. Which is helped by the light stimulus of the changing environment around you. And this brain wandering helps shake out cobwebs and generally make you feel like a free individual again.&lt;p&gt;And, of course, it gives you an energy boost, which helps with the simple exhaustion side of things.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wambotron</author><text>Maybe he didn&amp;#x27;t list it because he was, in fact, exercising? It&amp;#x27;s possible to burn out and exercise, but for some reason every other comment on HN drudges up exercise with a routine to &amp;quot;help&amp;quot; everyone else.&lt;p&gt;This goes back to the post that said something about only giving advice when it&amp;#x27;s asked for.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve burnt out before while exercising pretty heavily. The reasons he listed, after a while, can completely ruin anything your exercise does. Especially when you&amp;#x27;re &amp;quot;Free to wander&amp;quot; and just keep thinking about how bad the job sucks.</text></comment>