I was unfortunate enough to miss Kent Beck, one of the founders of the Extreme Programming speak recently here in San Francisco.
He asked "when was the
last time you were comfortable in your skin as a programmer? ...and
when did you last have that feeling at work?. " As usual Kent has hit upon some interesting psychology that really makes sense.
Here's part 1 of 8. If there's interest I'll post the other 7 segments. (Or you can find these at the Agitar website and some of it's also posted on YouTube..)