Emotionele veerkracht

Rocky Balboa heeft het erover in deze scene:

It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.

Rocky Balboa

Het is een bekende scene, en ik moest er aan denken toen ik van de week YouTuber ThePrimeagen hetzelfde hoorde zeggen:

Emotional resilience is like a requirement when it comes to programming. […] what I mean is that when you are off programming there is going to be hurdle after hurdle and just difficult things and so when you’re programming you became immune to difficult things. In fact sometimes the difficult thing was in fact what motivated you to finish a problem, it’s the thing that drives you, it’s the thing that earworms you and makes you want to run as fast you can and read everything and just constantly go after it at all times. 

Michael B. Paulson aka ThePrimeagen

Andrew Wiles — die wel iets over doorzetten weet — zei het ook:

Yes, some people are brighter than others but I really believe that most people can really get to quite a good level in mathematics if they’re prepared to deal with these psychological issues of how to handle the situation of being stuck.

Andrew Wiles