state of mind (Score 2, Interesting)

The most important thing by far is the state of mind you have going into a long hacking session. I find that if I don't have the right state of mind to tackle a project, I will find ways to not work on the project. Deadlines seem to be one of the ways to force me into the right state of mind, but otherwise, I prefer to just queue up all my music, put it on random, and let it fly. I dont like coding in the dark because that means it is harder to find/use any resources I have laying around. I draw things out on paper to solve problems, and doing that in the dark is a good way to kill your eyes. A lack of background noise is disturbing. In fact, the lack of music playing right now while I type this is killing whatever state of mind I had while I was trying to knock off some problems.