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Do you Shake a Leg?

I am jamming to Ocean Blue's "Between Something and Nothing" on XMRadio's "Lucy" as I write this..................lead in

I use to work with a developer who constantly shook his leg\foot, the right one if I recall. He also wore many rings and he would play with those (all while glaring at his laptop screen). One day, something landed in my pocket.  Is was his ring!  I chuckle thinking about that day.  Tato, how ya doing!

My point is, we all have some tick if you will we do when we are intensely coding.  What's yours? 

I now pay close attention to folks when I am in a meeting.  You know what, if seated, just about everyone is a toe tapper\leg shaker.  Why I wander?  Is it nerves, anxiety, stress?  At home, I tend to count things, like the corners of pictures, the TV, things on the wall, over and over I count them. I think this is anxiety. 

At work though I have yet to figure out what my tick is.  I catch myself tapping my foot from time to time, though not as often as I use to since I am now aware of it. 

So, lead in, maybe jamming to a tune is my thing........ 

 

 

3 Comments

  • A new PM here noticed that a lot of the devs drum their fingers on the desk.



    It a kind of controlled distraction, occupying part of the mind and body so that the mind can work on other things.

    Either that or OCD ;)

  • Counting is an OCD thing. Leg tapping is my deal, and usually the left one. Bill Gates rocks like those kids who were never held as babies. Is this a techie problem? Brain burn from an old-school CRT, maybe?

  • I count things too, and sometimes I group things up and count them again (like the points of a star, for example: I make groups of 2 and one's left over, groups made up of opposite points...). I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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