Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips

The claim of greater “better-ness” and ensuing failure seem to associate frequently.

There is an old story of programmer who coded for six hours. Then, instead of going home, the programmer coded two more hours and made enough mistakes in those two hours that it took the rest of the week to find fix them. The programmer should have called it a day.

Okay, maybe for most folks, but we’re tough(er). We can program all day and not be tired and make mistakes!

By personal experience and repeated examples…adults can go to class six hours a day. Okay, then the next two hours they can’t focus. But we go to class eight or more hours a day. The next day class continues, but the last two hours of the previous day are foggy, so they don’t understand today’s material and tomorrow’s and it goes down hill and…they should have quit after six hours because that is what adults can handle in a day.

But we’re tough. We can sit in class all day and absorb it all! If you can’t do as we—the superior—do, go home.

No, we’re not tough. We aren’t exceptionally capable. All our bravado is silly.

Why is it that we can’t admit that we are human, too?