Extreme Mental Training

Some time ago I read in a IT marketing magazine, that there are ca. 1.3 million highly qualified Indian programmers.

I guess that quite a lot of them know or practise Yoga. From the Patanjali aphorisms and other sources I know that the Yoga adepts are admonished not to share their knowledge with third parties.

As the Yoga literature is freely available now, I see no reason to hide these experiences.

Wouldn't it be nice to be able mentally to

• edit whole pages and rush them in the computer in one flow, or
• simulate/debug routines?

It is said, that the composer W.A.Mozart generated whole music pieces mentally on a walk and put them down mechanically afterwards.

While browsing the Web I came across a homepage, where the concept of CyberYoga is developed. This Yoga is a challenging synthesis of classical Yoga, Autogenous Training and Computer Science. I just drop the German author an email with a link to this page. Perhaps he might be interested to present some of his ideas.

-- FridemarPache

See also: TheSecretOfPower

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The exact opposite of ExtremeProgramming. XP is about doing, not imagining. XP is about sensing the real program, not dreaming about an imaginary one. For me, it's what a man does with his head that counts. --RonJeffries

A good imagination goes well together with 'doing'. -- fp

The operative word being together, perhaps.