The 7 habits of highly effective developers

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The 7 habits of highly effective people is an influential and best-selling book which coined terms such as proactivitiy. I'm a developer by day, so I wondered if the same habits could be applied to coding; the problem for me was that it's simple to start with TDD or another technical practice: in the former example, you notice you're not doing it while writing code ahead of tests. In comparison, picking up habits such as not modifying functionalities while refactoring and exploring a problem before writing code is moderately difficult.

Proactivity

Has your Internet connection failed in the last year? Did it leave you without a way to publish your code for several hours?
Proactivity is the ability to choose our own response to the external stimuli; it's the contrary of reactivity. While working, it's possible to experience hardware failures (the Internet connection example, or a broken hard disk), software failures (showstopper bugs into our preferred application), or "people" failures (such as a teammate not able to deliver).

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