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by Samarth1234 2740 days ago
I had faced the same problem 4 years back, while working in a job for 4 years where my programming skill was used in very limited manner. I was pretty good during my college time, but due to lack of practice for 4 years, i was feeling almost the same.

The thing i did to overcome was to force my mind to do it or there is nothing else. This thought came to my mind when I started interviewing in other companies. During interviews you are forced to go into survival mode where solving a problem matters a lot. Interview experience pushed me to take each coding assignment like that only. I will put a pomodoro for 25 mins, and will try to solve it. If I can't, i will look at solution and try to implement in next pomodoro. You need to tell your mind, coding/problem solving is something you love so much that you won't do anything else until this gets done. You will definitely get a kick, atleast worked for me.