Feb. 29, 2016
Julia went through mental toughness training in her tennis practice by herself last 5 years. She has played over hundreds of single/ double tennis matches ever since. Every time, she failed over and over again on mental toughness checking - her mind just does its own trip - being distracted, thinks about the win/ loss, things happened at work/ church/ friends/ family, she reminded herself, recovered and focused on the current, back to sports, current game, current point - it is tough, that is the reason called mental toughness training. Do not even think about this game, this set, or last point, only this current moment.
In more technical term, mental toughness is - Only think about what she can control, stand on the ground, current moment, thing is happening right now.
Good thing is that she develops the great attitude to live at the moment, and kick some depression ass/ negative thoughts' ass, and then be a super happy and smart person again.
How about algorithm problem solving skills? coding skills? One of her problems is to deal with algorithms problem solving in one hour. How does she stay in the current moment, spend one hour?
She still feels frustrated after a week, but she takes time to think about it.
Here are her action items:
1. Try to solve easy problem always.
2. Have some training - fast coding, on hackerRank.
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