Comment by javier_e06

I equate feeling stupid with negative re-inforcment. When I find the solution I pat myself in the back (we are programmers, nobody cares). When I can't find the solution and then is shown to me I feel bad because I my skills proved insufficient.

Yet

That sense of feeling of success and failure are so fleeting I learn to let go of both.

They are the fuel that drive my quests but I don't sleep with them. They are both volatile.