Re:How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook
by thirdsun on Friday October 30, 2015 @09:20AM
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> > “I watch my son, every night and every single day, staying up until 4 or 5 am, working on the app, doing his homework, sleeping two or three hours, and then going to school,” Cristina Sayman says. "
> I'm sad to say, I don't do this :( , I struggle to find that much willpower, even though I believe in what I'm building.
It's great to have ambition and follow through with a project but staying up all night, sleeping 3 hours and going to school completely tired isn't the way to do it, not healthy at all and it shouldn't be encouraged.
No reason to be sad - save your willpower for reasonable hours.
> I'm sad to say, I don't do this :( , I struggle to find that much willpower, even though I believe in what I'm building.
It's great to have ambition and follow through with a project but staying up all night, sleeping 3 hours and going to school completely tired isn't the way to do it, not healthy at all and it shouldn't be encouraged.
No reason to be sad - save your willpower for reasonable hours.