I'm starting to believe that to be a successful programmer, one has to be ignorant and clever. It can seems contradictory but the more I work for company, the more I'm starting to believe it.
The reason? You have to be a total ignorant to be ready to jump in a work that will require you a 2000% commitment and a lot of stress, problems, and so on. But still some of us go for it.
The next step requires to be more ignorant than at the beginning : when you start doubting about your work/competences, facing problems with your project, most people realize that they are stuck and abandon. Not successful programmer, they keep going on, ignoring all the signals, friends telling them the idea is stupid, recurrent (logical) problems, etc.
But at the end, something new appear, and sometime it's revolutionary, and sometime, the programmer become sucessful.
The reason? You have to be a total ignorant to be ready to jump in a work that will require you a 2000% commitment and a lot of stress, problems, and so on. But still some of us go for it.
The next step requires to be more ignorant than at the beginning : when you start doubting about your work/competences, facing problems with your project, most people realize that they are stuck and abandon. Not successful programmer, they keep going on, ignoring all the signals, friends telling them the idea is stupid, recurrent (logical) problems, etc.
But at the end, something new appear, and sometime it's revolutionary, and sometime, the programmer become sucessful.
It's the Entrepreneur Roller Coaster (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKocnAS345U) and it's a mix of willingness, chance and dedication.