Of Chinups and swollen biceps

Another crazy idea. decided to match my fitness with another dude today . We started with the chinup bar . The other guy did 3 X 10 chinups with a reverse grip . It seemed pretty easy to look at , and against my initial judgement went ahead with the exercise and ended up with 3 X 6 chin ups. It seemed fine initially with a little niggle . The trouble started in the evening when I was reaching for the bike handle , only then did I notice the swelling and now I am walking like a la Salman Khan - (minus the muscles )

Random Notes

I have had the privilege of watching few peers making the journey from a decent programmers
to good programmer(if not great).
I observed the following patterns similar to these successful people
1. Passion : The passion and exuberance is amazing at whatever work they do.
and this passion for work is very infective.Most often the teams who work with such individuals show the same passion .One can verify this from the quality of the work done.


2.Life outside work : If work gives them their daily bread , the extra cheese and other toppings come from
programming outside of office . Generally this activity involves either contributing to the open source
or in pursuit of their passion . This is what keeps their technical skills sharpened and the motto here
is never to lose sight of the goal .

3.Time management : This is probably one of their greatest assets. Apart from being efficient at work,
what I have observed is these guys have time for almost everything they want to do . Partly the time management
skills are a side-effect of their discipline .

4. Clarity and the depth of understanding : In times when every resume boasts of the latest and greatest technology
and most of them cannot answer fundamental concepts, these select few , I have observed have indepth knowledge on whatever
they say they know .