Coding should *not* cause a fight or flight response!
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According to http://changingminds.org/explanations/brain/fight_flight.htm:
“When we perceive a significant threat to us, then our bodies get ready either for a fight to the death or a desperate flight from certain defeat by a clearly superior adversary. ”
This is an interesting experience when you are a front-end web developer working on an enterprise project that is suddenly feeling like a house of cards.
So suddenly something breaks that everyone is working on and the same things gets done and undone like shoe strings over and over again, finally when you get them tied someone ties yours together and you fall flat on your face. You go through and change the CSS and everything appears to be working in every browser finally! You spent two days going through every template on every page in every browser to make sure you don’t miss anything… Moment of truth! So why does resolving a merge conflict and pushing feel like an adrenaline rush of the worst kind? Because despite everything working locally everything still breaks… why?