The Pragmatic Bookshelf | PragPub August 2011 | Guru Meditation
A few years ago I was giving one of my Pragmatic Thinking & Learning workshops, and we were talking about the value of a wide-ranging education that included the arts, not just the sciences. One of the participants made a revealing comment about how useful those non-technical courses were:
"The theater I did in college has helped me more in my programming career than half of my engineering courses."—Grant Gainey, Senior Architect Developer
There are many reasons that a theater course would come in handy, not the least of which is learning how to work well with others under sometimes trying and unexpected circumstances. But there's one aspect in particular that's worth looking at in more detail.
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