122 Stories To Learn About Motivation

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1. How to Learn Things Fast Without Going Crazy

As people who work in the tech industry, we often need to learn new technologies for our work. But how can you actually learn things fast?

2. Knowledge Work is Non-Linear—Here's How You Keep Devs Motivated

Software development might not look exhausting at first glance, but it’s one of the most consuming fields out there. Developers need to maintain steady concentration through 8-10-hour working days, approach tasks creatively, and maintain communication with their colleagues. Even top talent gets bored and burnt out.

3. Procrastination From a Remote Programmer's Perspective

I've read many articles on procrastination and motivation, but I've always found in them a complete or partial misunderstanding of the problem. Or just inconsistency with my realities – after all, people are different. I'm going to describe what I know from my own experience and what helps me personally. Maybe it will help someone else.

4. How To Get Out Of Tutorial Hell

There are many ways to break out of tutorial hell. Start your own project. Contribute to open source. Join a community.

5. "Emotions make your mind dumb and kill logic": A Blunt Perspective on How to Live

You only have one life, make it big!

6. The Frightening Truth Behind Mind Control and Social Media [Halloween Special]

Let’s talk about the elephant in the room…

7. How to Avoid Career Burnout

The best way to avoid career burnout is for employees to prioritize taking care of their mental, physical, and emotional well-being.

8. '9/10 Startups Fail' Depends on Your Definition of Failure

There is one of those "universal truths" in the world of startups that, like almost all of them, is neither as universal nor as TRUE as we usually think, and that investors often repeat: 9 out of 10 companies fail.

9. I Plan to Learn Coding Before 2022: Here's How

During the application process for this online class, I first discovered what programming was all about. So I started researching how to learn to code.

10. 3 Ways Personal Projects Make You A Better Developer

11. An Open Letter to Everybody Having Trouble Getting Started Today

How to stop inactivity and just start what you want to do. The flywheel concept of getting things off the ground and the best and only time to start is now!

12. How To Hack Your Brain To Get Motivated, Even When You’re Bored

On boredom, laziness, and snickers. On how to hack your brain, and how to deal with the mystery that is the bored, unproductive brain, with a well-tried method.

13. The Psychology of a Programmer

Program, what an interesting concept more than a word. It has been used so endlessly in the life of you and I so many times, that is has become uncountable. If we begin to deconstruct it, therefore to understand its core, we can say that it is a specific set of operations of tasks, commanded or ordered for a computer to perform.

14. I Became a Software Engineer in 3 Months - Here's How

I became a software engineer in 3 months and I believe you can too. The secret that helped me succeed is showing up every day and doing the work.

15. You Needn’t Be Perfect as Software Developers, Live Your Life

We know that the software community has a multidisciplinary structure. In such a situation, you should not feel inadequate.

16. Why My Code Would Take 316 Years to Execute

I started programming about 5 years ago. Ironically, only in the last year of my computer science degree. I was also made aware of the likes of Hackerrank and Hackerearth at the same time. I remember naively brute-forcing every single problem that I would come across on these platforms and later wonder why it would give me a TLE Error.

17. Why Side Projects Are Important

To some, the idea of side projects is an unwelcomed distraction. They have what they need to do, and they need to get it done before the next thing. For others, side projects are a key motivation of the day-to- day.

18. If You Want to Learn Better, Put Down the Tutorial, and Start Practicing

Going from tutorial to tutorial to achieve this imaginary 100% knowledge of a topic is very detrimental.

19. Your Perception of Success is Wrong. Here's A Technical Representation to Prove It

We often mix a state of being with personalities. Like being successful... Is success a personality of a person? or rather a state of a person at a given point in time. Here's a technical representation of such a model.

20. How I Was Able to Motivate Myself To Start My First Side Project

So, what was it that made me stop paying attention to the lazy devil on my shoulder?

21. Thinking of Humans as a Computer Program

22. 5 Top Tech Careers to Consider Studying Towards in 2021

Gain entry into IT with knowledge of data science, engineering, cloud computing, cybersecurity, or devops.

23. Deciding on a programming language to learn? Ask these 3 key questions

When asking yourself 'what programming language should I learn first?' First ask yourself: what are my motivations for wanting to learn to code?

24. Starting To Code From Zero - Realistically

25. Make Your EdTech Life-Changing by Applying These 5 UX Insights

It's impossible to buid a well-converting edtech product without investing in the LX. Use these 5 insights to make your project life-changing.

26. 8 Habits of Highly Productive People

The habits of highly productive people make them accomplish a lot. It's not magic, and you can improve your mentality by following these 8 habits.

27. 10 Python Projects with 10 Lines of Code

I faced a problem when I started learning programming. That problem was: I thought needed to have deep understanding in every field to do projects and make cool stuff. So I started learning coding seriously, but after a few week I lost my motivation, as it was not clear to me that how coding is going to help me make something that I'd like.

28. DIY Simple CEO Dalip Celbeqiri On Work and Motivation [Interview]

I had the chance to talk to the Facebook Video Expert Dalip Celbeqiri who is the "go-to-person" when it comes to creative marketing. You can catch him behind the scenes, usually brainstorming and creating master plans for viral content. Dalip is one of the founders and CEO for the company Following Media Inc. His team runs the marketing for some of the biggest brands like “DIY Simple“. His team currently holds the 2nd place for “most views on a Facebook video” with more than 4.5 billion minutes viewed in a year; 100% organically.

29. 7 Ways to Stay Motivated While Working Remotely

Working remotely has become a common choice among young people. Remote work comes with benefits such as no stress for commute, more family time, a boost in productivity, and many other cost-related savings.

30. How One Feature From a Failed Startup Can Become a Billion Dollar Idea

I will go through a summarized story of a well-known startup and share my notes from this lesson.

31. A Letter of Encouragement to the Female Founders of the Future

Surveys suggest that over a third of the world’s female entrepreneurs have experienced gender bias. Only about 6.4% companies have women CEOs.

32. How I’m Fixing My Love-Hate Relationship With Reading

Reading is a skill that can be learned, but it comes with practice and consistency like all skills.

33. Learn How to Crack the Code of Emotional Intelligence

The definition of Emotional Intelligence states that it is: ”the ability to perceive, understand and influence our own and others’ emotions, across a range of contexts, to guide our current thinking and actions, to help us to achieve our goals”.

34. Why Reading Self-Help Books Is a Total Waste Of Time!

Here’s a ‘secret’: If a self-help book makes you think it has a magic pill for success, approach it with extreme caution!

35. How to Live in the Present: One Step at a Time

Dean Karnazes | One Step At A Time

36. How Aspiration Killed My Motivation

Never get too close to the sun

37. Why Standard Operating Procedures are Essential

Standard Operating Procedures are boring and the furthest thing from exciting but setting them up for your team will improve their performance significantly.

38. 20 Quotes to Inspire Entrepreneurs on the More Difficult Days

No matter how positive a person you are, you are not a robot. It is easy to get the wind Knocked out of you when the obstacles of modern life get in your way. So if you’re in need of a confidence boost, some inspiring advice. Here are my top 20 inspirational quotes of all time, for entrepreneurs especially.

39. How the Tech Industry Discourages Multi-Passionates

I wrote a post a few weeks ago about how I sometimes regret specializing in a front end development framework. Mainly because I inadvertently pigeonholed myself into work with outdated technology. What I realized I might have been accidentally implying in that post is that the tech industry therefore prefers multi-passionate people. I wanted to correct this implication because it is extremely incorrect, in fact I would argue that it is the opposite. There are not a lot of creative jobs in the tech industry, at least not if you are a developer. This is what makes it especially difficult for multi-passionate folks.

40. 3 Things That You Should Do Before Even Trying to Be Productive

Before you find the perfect productivity techniques, stop doing these simple things first.

41. How To Create a Useful Educational Product for Adults using Motivational Design

The main metric for educational product is it's completition rate. To improve it, one can use the principles of motivational design.

42. Should I stay in a Toxic Workplace?

A question that many people face in today’s toxic workplaces is — “Should I stay? Even though I know that my workplace is toxic.”

43. How Developers Should Invest Their Time

In today’s, in the past and probably in the future world — the time is more valuable than money, and the right time waits for no one. Hence, we have to make the most out of it to succeed in life.

44. How I Bounced Back from Failure: The Story of Zeke Pike

You Can Bounce Back From Anything

45. 4 Tips For Keeping Remote Dev Teams Motivated

Every month, dozens of software development companies come up with hundreds of ways for distributed teams to cooperate efficiently, as if they were working side by side in an open-plan office—online collaboration tools, audio and video conferencing solutions, project management systems, time tracking applications, etc.

46. Stop Being a People Pleaser: Must-Read Guide on How to Set Clear and Healthy Boundaries

Do you feel exhausted, even frustrated working hard, putting in extra hours, sometimes even on weekends and late nights trying to catch up on work, but not being able to make progress on your own goals?

47. 7 Basic Rules to Make Developer`s Life Better

As people, we have a superpower; it is the power of perception. As the famous saying goes, life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to it.

48. 7 Strategies for Maximum Productivity

You are reading this because of one of two reasons. Either you want to be more productive, or you are looking for all that time that you lose during the day. You woke up early, worked all day and it still seems that your code or project did not move anywhere.

49. Everything is Impossible Before Someone Does It

During the 1930s, there was a frenzy for mountain climbing in Europe, driven by some advances in technology, and a modernist zeal. Pre-eminent among these grand challenges, was the lust to climb the North Face of the Eiger, a mile-high sheer face of rock, the largest in the Alps, perpetually in shadow, and shrouded near the top by the dreaded “White Spider” ice field.

50. Doers Vs No Doers: An Analytical Approach

To start with, this is a tricky topic, where I might find people in conflict with my perception but after all when isn’t conflict a promising act. Conflict by its meaning is a disagreement where one holds an entirely opposite perspective and surely does one defend it as if it was their very own life at stake. I think that is a beauty of it, perhaps lasting for a long time that is unexpected or usual. I would put it as my experience to suggest that I have seen people get excited and enthusiastic about doing something. It can be an idea or a project or anything that they either want to achieve in life or a common goal to which one puts an effort.

51. 5 Incredibly Simple Yet Useful Tips To Push Your Motivation Flywheel

How can I make motivation part of my life to do things that will help me achieve my goals in the long run? For me, motivation was a state of mind. Some days I was all excited and motivated to get to my toughest goals and important tasks that I had avoided in the past. Then there were other times I felt lost, unsure of how to make even tiny progress on things I got to do.

52. The Number Mistake Everyone Makes in School

Let’s take a look at my younger self:

53. The Philosophy Of Ikigai: Dare To Live The Life Of Your Dreams

Is feeling alive important?

54. Fun Ways To Teach Programming Without Giving Boring Lectures

I’ve been a computer programmer for over ten years now. I went from freelancing to running a consulting agency to working for a Silicon Valley startup full time and am now trying to build a product myself. While I do have a formal CS education, I consider myself mostly self-taught. A big part of my professional development comes from me doing competitive programming as a kid. More specifically, from being part of a small computer club in my hometown, run by a passionate university professor — Michael Dolinsky.

55. I Am A Hacker Working From Home and This is What I Do to Improve My Productivity

I began to stay at home since 2013 after the mobile games company went broke. I am not a real so-called "hacker". Instead, I am much more a developer than a hacker. When you work for yourself it can be very hard to stay productive. You have all of this freedom and it’s very easy to be distracted. You also find that there are certain aspects of your working environment that don't help with productivity.

56. Implement This One Cultural Characteristic to Build A Healthy Codebase

It’s easy to pay lip service to company culture. But few companies actively consider those few cultural characteristics that make a meaningful difference to performance—because that’s the hard part.

57. How to Manage and Motivate GEN Z

By knowing what motivates Gen Z employees, managers can better manage and retain this amazing young generation of talent.

58. In Lockdown? Here's how to kill your time in times of Covid Crises?

In the event when Corona virus caused great disruption in the whole world, and people are compelled to stay at home, many people are also falling prone to mental illness like depression and anxiety.

59. Practice Coding Like An Expert With The Help Of These 5 Tips

Keep things interesting and practice coding through different methods such as tutorials, quizzes or developing your own projects.

[60. Our GitHub Org. qxresearch Got 2k+

Views in 3 Days](https://hackernoon.com/our-github-org-qxresearch-got-2k-views-in-3-days-dn1y3tw1) I've created a GitHub Organization named qxresearch which is officially part of Mozilla Campus Club. In this club, members get a chance to develop their own projects with us and contribute to our projects. Being the lead of the club I've arranged a event on 10-projects-10-Lines-of-Code.

The aim the event was to prove that we can built something really cool with the programming knowledge we've. It won't take thousands of lines of code to make GUI based python app.

I made a tutorial video explaining how the code works and how we can use those to solve real-life problems.

61. In a world full of experts, be a newbie

There’s no such thing as an expert. The experts are just newbies who never stopped learning. So instead of feeling sorry for yourself, embrace your inner newbie

62. How to Hack Your Brain for Instant Motivation

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”

63. Beginners, Start To Ask "What They Do" not "How To Be one"

I have met many young engineers, students who wants to do great in their career , they are so bright , hard working & full of potential still they mess up. Why ?

64. In the Digital Economy, the HOW is More Important Than the WHY

A clearly articulated purpose is only effective when accompanied with an authentic process.

65. Productivity Guide: How to Be Less Busy and More Effective

In our hectic modern world, we believe that rushing from one task to the next and managing multiple priorities shows everyone that we are productive.

66. Making Self-Learning Less Lonely and More Fun

3 systems to make self-learning easier, Mentors to follow on Twitter and Cool Project Ideas for teaching yourself programming

67. 17 Best Animation Software for Beginners in 2022

Looking for the best animation software for beginners? You are at the right place!

68. Stand Up And Choose To Make A Difference

The system we grew up with is a mess.

69. Some Motivation to Finish That Hackathon Project You’ve Been Sitting on

How many people here have a project idea or a WIP project? ✋ Hackathons are a constant stream of motivation and resources for building projects to the end.

70. Follow the Leverage

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

71. 13 Things You Should Know If You Are A Software Developer/Entrepreneur In 2020

13 different things that you can learn today if you want to be a tech entrepreneur or a better engineer to make an application and ship it to your customers!

72. How to Succeed in Your Studies : How To Start [ Part 1]

Why? What? How?

73. From Small Failures to Big Wins: An Interview With Marco Calamassi on Mindset

I'm a mindset geek, It all comes down to that in the end, whether it's failures or wins. In my constant chase for Mindset hacks, tips and stories I had the opportunity to talk to the Digital Entrepreneur Marco Calamassi, whose team develops social media brands and products for some of the biggest influencers. In this interview, I had a chance to ask a few questions regarding his journey, the struggles, the successes and the mindset needed. Here's what he had to say.

74. Assessing Personal Career and Progress

Taking a pause from something that we do in order to keep track of something that is needed some attention is very important.

75. Engineering Teams Need Inspiration to Thrive and Succeed

We don’t deserve the team we can’t inspire. Camaraderie, purpose, and appreciation need to become our priority.

76. 5 Ways Engineering Managers Can Motivate Individual Contributors

Want to inspire and motivate your individual contributors? Try setting clear goals and expectations, providing ongoing feedback and support, encouraging career

77. Introducing Stark Drones: Propelling into the Future

The purpose of this article isn't investment advice. It isn't to sell a product. However, it is to sell a vision. I am writing about my startup known as Stark Drones that is working on some quite innovative technologies. In the age of copycat products and the whole Silicon Valley bugs, comes some startups wanting to build truly disruptive technologies.

78. Why Should We Bother Picking Ourselves Up When Life Beats Us Down?

A certain fact is that everyone's life has ups and downs. When we know that a situation is impossible to fix, why should we still do our best then? Not to become a hero or to put a brave face on, it's for more simpler reasons.. read on to find inspiration.

79. 5 Steps To Inspire Your Team to Success

For many leaders, recent progress can be difficult. It's not that we're not interested in performing at a high level and delivering the best results to our clients. Many of us ask ourselves:

80. How Social Media Can Help You Eat Healthily

Just about everyone who has tried to make radically healthier changes to their daily food consumption have realized that this is easier to accomplish with some kind of support system aside from your own will to succeed. It is a great help for people to cheer you on, support you, give you advice, or even criticize you on your way to better eating and overall health.

81. The Benefits of Writing in English (as a Non-Native Speaker)

Writing for a blog is not about perfect grammar or fancy sentences. Here's why you should write in English (as a non-native English speaker).

82. How to Build Loyalty and Motivate Your Employees

Faced with the disastrous consequences of a voluntary departure of employees for the company, keeping its teams as long as possible becomes a major issue. To gain in productivity, you must as a business leader, find the ways and means necessary to motivate and retain your employees.

83. "What If ... I didn't Do It?"

This is the story of how I wrote my first blog and got published on Hackernoon ... after a year .

84. If you are already a happy coder, don't read this

it gets difficult, to keep your coding journey continues . It's alright!you are not good enough. Discipline doesn't mean do it every day without fail,

85. How to work on a startup when your motivation runs out

In most cases, positive motivation drives a person starting a new business. He wants to make the best product, become a leader, or earn a profit. When that positive motivation runs out, there are two possible scenarios.

86. An Open Letter from an Investor to Aspiring Data-Scientists and Entrepreneurs

What is it to venture, to accomplish?

87. Identify Your Investment Risk Profile, Develop a Winning Strategy, Work It

If you learned how to save money successfully, sooner or later, many of us will be faced the question: “How can we invest our hard-earned money profitably — assets like shares, stocks, bonds, funds, certificates or gold?”

88. How To Start Investing - Developer Edition

Having money in the bank that is just giving you zero profit and killing your capital instead of making more money is not going to help you achieve your financial goals.

89. How I Manage My Team So The Business Can Thrive

Managing Guidance From The Diary of an Amateur (not anymore) CEO Who Runs a Six Million Revenue BusinessWhy invent the wheel when someone has already invented a bicycle? Whether in business or any other category, learning from others’ experiences increases your chances of success along with saving you time, resources, and money.

90. Finding A Software Developer Mentor When You're A Newbie

Your first job as a software developer can be very challenging. Having a mentor to discuss your industry-related challenges can be key to your career.

91. Driving Action Through the Power of 'Yet'

Saying “I can’t do” triggers a belief that she can never do it, it’s not within her reach. That makes her give up without trying hard enough.

92. Customer Support 101: Encouraging The Voice of The Company

Customer Support is the team that keeps in touch with our clients. They deal with the requests and issues that connect our customers to the business — they are the bridge. Offering excellent customer support is as important as having a robust product. To lead this effort, Preply has recently hired a new Head of Support, Jean-Pascal Gribaudi. He used to manage a support team in Booking.com.

93. Is your boss a leader?

Not all bosses are leaders. Right? There’s the difference between managing and leading? An oft-quoted talent expert Marcus Buckingham, saying “people leave managers, not companies.”  According to a recent study by Robert Half, 49% of employees surveyed have quit their posts because of a bad boss.

94. What's the Best Motivation Strategy?

Startups aren't only built by ideas. There have to be motivated employees. In this slogging thread, the startup hustle community shared motivation strategies.

95. Shoshin: How To Foster This Zen Concept In Companies and Personal Development

Shoshin is a Zen concept that companies, science researchers or regular people can practice for a better mindset.

96. Benefits of Financial Independence For Software Engineers

If you read this post, chances that you are a software developer who is seeking financial advice for smart money-saving or investment or early retirement.

97. What Startup Equity Compensation Means For Developers: Part I

It’s not a secret that most founders get most of the equity because they quit their jobs, fundraise money, or put on their own to start a venture.

98. The Science of Getting Rich: Preface

The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles is part of HackerNoon’s Book Blog Post series.

99. 5 Tips From a Robot on Motivation

Need to get more done? Follow these 5 tips from an AI robot to help keep you motivated.

100. Buying an iPhone Landed me my First Job as a Developer

Buying an iphone gave me a great idea, that resulted in my first job as a develop, here's how!

101. How Finding Your People Can Help You Achieve Your Big Dreams

Got Big Dreams? Find Your Ecosystem

102. Being a Productive Parent with the Montessori Pedagogy in Mind

Transferable soft skills are crucial regardless of operating in a high-performance work setting or negotiating going-out rules with a 3-year-old.

103. Those That Work Together Win Together

Steve White | Working Together To Win Together

104. A Disney Animator’s Tips on How to Live a Life of Awesome

Saul Blinkoff | Be Sincere: How to Live a Life of Awesome

105. Negative Self-Talk - What's the Cure?

The Antidote for Negative Self-Talk

106. Metaphors are Water: The Hidden Power of Thinking in Metaphors

In essence, metaphors are water. The container determines the metaphor’s shape.

107. What To Write In Your Journal To Improve Productivity

What do you do when you plan your day the night before but then waking up with absolutely no motivation to actually follow up with your plans?

108. How to Become the Greatest Leader of All Time: Tom Brady Style

One of the essential qualities to Tom Brady’s game is his leadership skills to get the maximum talent and productivity out of his teams to become the GOAT.

109. Are You Settling, Or Doing Your Best?

Are You Settling, Or Doing Your Best? It's important to recognise when you are making decisions to be stable or if you're pushing yourself to reach your dreams.

110. My Dear Daughter: Ensure Your Freedom with Your “F*ck Off” Fund

Money does not bring happiness. Money buys freedom. Freedom to take a leave when you feel burned out. Freedom to leave a country. Freedom to own a house.

111. From Being A College Dropout To Becoming A Product Manager

I currently work in a SaaS startup as a Product Manager. I’ve about four years of experience in the SaaS domain and have worked in various functions in my career.

112. How to Create a Dream Team as a Lead Engineer Through Delegation, Automation and Motivation

I don’t mean to toot my own horn, but I’m actually convinced I managed to create a dream team, the best one in my whole company. Read on to do it too.

113. Staff Motivation in Software Development Companies

Are you looking best and most efficient strategies and ideas for staff motivation? Here are 15 tips on how to motivate employees.

114. Just Do it: How Much Motivation Do We Need Nowadays?

The message (you literally only need this information from this article): stop wasting your time on blindly consuming self help materials. Learn things that matter. Find the time, and do them. Don’t waste your time reading how not to waste time.

115. 4 Motivation Theories to Help Improve The Health and Efficiency of Your Team

What motivates employees? 4 psychological theories of motivation show why intrinsic motivators such as leadership development are surpassing traditional perks.

116. Self-Improvement in 10 Short Steps

Before you start with your self-improvement journey, you must find your "WHY" If your “why” does not you affect emotionally (we like to say if it doesn’t make you cry) then it may not be a big enough reason to motivate you to create the better you. Make your WHY genuinely heartfelt and large enough so that it ignites passion and intense emotion behind your dreams. These emotions will inspire urgent need in you for self-improvement.

117. How to Build a Dream Team: Tips for CTO

Even though a group of individuals is called a team, they are not. People do not know exactly which direction they are going and may pursue different goals.

118. How To Know If You Are Ready For Internship?

Recently I just completed my 6-months internship at Digi-X. It was a great experience for me, I went from using XAMPP to setup a simple PHP website to knowing how to use Laravel and deploy it on AWS on top of NGINX web server.

119. Life Hacks: Hardwon Wisdom from Four Months Caffeine-Free

I used to be a coffee addict. And then, the deceptive Lady Caffeine of House Lannister started collecting her debts.

120. What Being an Army Ranger Taught Me About Being a Project Manager

The leadership I’ve learned through life could be summed up and put on the front of a t-shirt, “95% of the leadership skills I learned, I learned in the Army.” If that saying isn't already a thing: ™️. Though I left the U.S. Army a little over 20 years ago, I still stand by that statement.

121. Building Your First Website In Under 30 Days

Have you ever thought to start building your first website? Are you trying to acquire a new skills which shows your creativity? or are you feeling curious, how tech developers and entrepreneurs are building modern web apps and changing the world ?

122. Conquering Imposter Syndrome for Success

Conquer Imposter Syndrome for Unbelievable Success

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