>>>>> "Carl" == Carl Chilley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Good points re the memory issues. Add to this the "superman syndrome" > and this is pressing reason enough to partition your work time slots and > breaks. > Carl > Superman syndrome. Idea from the 80s whereby you have a full size > cardboard cut-out of Superman standing behind you, over one of your > shoulders. This is the one I knew as the "Rubber plant effect", in which explaining your problem to a potted plant was helpful in clarifying it. (Apparently it was earlier the "expert programmer effect", and the potted plant originally used was a rubber plant called Dijkstra.) > Whenever you get a problem, you explain what it is to > Superman (the cut-out) and, in the vast majority of cases you then see a > solution to the articulated problem. There appears to be two reasons for > this. > ... Another way that it may help is that, when your idea of the situation splits into several possibilities, you either have to pick one to articulate it, or you have to articulate that it might be one of several things, and perhaps list them, and this helps to clarify which of them it is. __John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
