I found myself refactoring a large amount of code recently, and during the course ended up reading PEP-20 - The Zen of Python again. It’s been awhile since I last read it and it reminded me so much of why I love python and actually motivated me to refactor more than what I was working on at the current time!

While these are easily applied to writing code, I feel like with the right point of view they are generalized enough to apply to all facets of life.

• Beautiful is better than ugly.
• Explicit is better than implicit.
• Simple is better than complex.
• Complex is better than complicated.
• Flat is better than nested.
• Sparse is better than dense.
• Readability counts.
• Special cases aren’t special enough to break the rules.
• Although practicality beats purity.
• Errors should never pass silently.
• Unless explicitly silenced.
• In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
• There should be one— and preferably only one —obvious way to do it.
• Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you’re DutchCanadian/Swedish.
• Now is better than never.
• Although never is often better than right now.
• If the implementation is hard to explain, it’s a bad idea.
• If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
• Namespaces are one honking great idea — let’s do more of those!