Last year, as part of a series of posts, I asked "Are you investing in your own career?". This, in part, came about from a great quote that heard:Do you have 10 years experience, or 1 year's experience repeated 10 times?I think the majority of developers starting out are fired up and excited every day. Everything is new, everything is a challenge. Just getting something to work, no matter how, is a success.It can also be amazingly frustrating and tiring to be constantly learning and actively building your knowledge / skill-set. It's probably not a surprise therefore that it is so easy / appealing to back off a little bit for a break once you have learnt enough to satisfy the day job. Similar to over training in sport, it's probably even a good idea - no one can do anything flat out indefinitely.But what happens when you just continue backing off? The hard truth is, rather than continuing to build your experience, you do slowly start to fall into the trap o…