What is the secret to be successful as a programmer from your experience?

In my experience, the secret to success as a programmer is a blend of continuous learning, problem-solving skills, and consistent coding practices. However, it's also crucial to stay updated with industry trends and foster a passion for what you do. What strategies have others found most effective in their programming journeys?

Just keep at it. The consistency of keeping on showing up and solving problems with code is what will help you be a good programmer. Just keep building and have patience.

Motivation to keep improving and learning all the time

First of all, you gotta learn a little bit about the programmer's mentality and adopt it from the beginning! After, all you to do is to create a plan and a roadmap based on your goals and future vision and just stay consistent on learning from your mistakes and adjust your plan as needed!

Some chocolates, bunch of cigarettes, and money to buy new keyboards in case if you smash yours when you can't figure out why the code's not working. Kidding but chocolates part is key to become successful like Elon musk...

Practice more.

Stay curios all the time, diversity your work, be open to new things.