Coder's High – The Intense Feeling of Absorption
I suspect that you get this kind of high doing a lot of things other than programming; programmers are not unique in this regard.<p>I'm insanely jealous of people who can do stuff like this. I hear stories of people like John Carmack locking themselves away in a room and finishing an entire project or implementing an entire feature in a night or over a weekend. In contrast it takes me days to finish anything, I just don't have the ability to concentrate or care about something that intensely.<p>Now I understand some stories are embellishments and someone like Carmack just thinks on a different level than most people, but is there a way to teach yourself to be able to engage in these marathon creative sessions or is it something you must be born with?