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by SoftTalker 987 days ago
In our industry, it's also very easy for the undisciplined person to succeed. You get a new job, it's exciting and the problems are new and motivating. After a few years the shine wears off, it becomes boring, you understand all the problems and they start to seem tedious. You find it difficult to really engage. But fortunately, the demand for software developers is so great that you can easily find a new job, and the cycle repeats.
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More like the undisclpined person has several layers of structure to keep them on track.

Both external and internal rewards. And external punishments, Ie on review, pay cut, fired etc.