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Hey. It’s Angela here again.

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And I'm here to give you a virtual pat on the back for getting this far and completing the last module.

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Now, today I want to talk about what you should do when you feel really frustrated, like when you feel

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overwhelmed with all the things that you need to know and they all seem impossible,

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and you’re getting stuck on like, you know, thing after thing, and you just feel like frustrated.

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What should you do?

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The first thing you should do is take a break.

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You've probably been staring at that piece of code for too long.

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And, you know, like sometimes when I stare at my own name like for too long it starts looking weird, like

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is that really how you spell Angela, like A n g l?

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Like you know like if you are not getting a moment to just let your brain think about something else

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it will get stuck much much easier.

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So take a break.

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You know, sometimes sleep on it.

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The best solutions come to me when I think about my problem

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before I go to sleep, and then the next morning I wake up and I try to tackle that thing that I got stuck

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on yesterday. For some miraculous reason it's like I set my brain is like working on it while I'm sleeping.

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But the next day solutions come to me just so much easier.

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So take a break, let your brain rest, go and exercise, go for like a jog around the block, or, you know, a

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fast paced walk if you're not already into jogging like I am. I try to go for like a 30 minute swim at the

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local pool if I can and just like the sort of silence underwater when I'm swimming and just being enveloped

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by water somehow really helps me clear my thoughts and it makes me feel more calm and when I come back

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to my problem I just seem to be better at solving it.

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So don't be so hard on yourself. Don’t just sit there and rip your hair out and be like “Why can't I do

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this? Why is my code not working?”

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We've all been there before but it's not the right thing to do.

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Take a break.

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Have a moment to yourself.

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Think about something else.

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Look at something else and then come back to it.

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It’s always going to be there for you.

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Your problems don’t just run away.