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Re:Dirty Little Secret of Success by unalone on Thursday October 22, 2009 @03:19PM (#897438)
You can joke about that, but it happens. I've had a particularly good few months, and as a result I find myself getting less done than last year, when I was frequently miserable. In that last two months, I've done maybe one really neat piece of work, and that was immediately after a bad weekend.

I'm not exactly complaining about it, but a part of me wants to throw myself into an upsetting situation just so I'll get back to obsessing over my work.

Re:Dirty Little Secret of Success by izaidi on Thursday October 22, 2009 @08:21PM (#898000)
I'm the same way. My best work has been happened on some of the worst days of my life. I think it's an "Everything sucks so I have to make something that doesn't" sort of thing.