I think its thinking with a mindset that you are writing a book.
Being willing to learn more and accepting constructive criticism. Accepting constructive criticism is very, very, important if you wish to be a coder. It doesnāt matter if the person is less experienced than you. If they have a fair point, youāve got to accept what they said.
Another thing you never want to accept is that youāre satisfied where you are with your coding knowledge. There is always so much more you can learn if you only reach out your hand and try. Iāve been coding for awhile now and Iāve learned a lot but there is always so much more you can learn.
A couple years ago, I tried to create a textarea that when you clicked on some buttons, it would add that letter to the textarea. But unfortunately, I only knew HTML, so I spent hours making a separate HTML page for each letter. Now, I could do that in a couple minutes with JavaScript.
Another example, a couple days ago I posted a reply to a question which asked why the input element did not require a closing tag. I, being pretty experienced with HTMl, replied that it did have a closing tag (referring to the slash and closing angle bracket <input />). Pretty soon after that, someone sent me an article explaining that actually, the slash before the angle bracket was not required, thus showing that no ending tag.
As you can see, there are two responses to that. One is to get all high and mighty about it and not accept the constructive criticism. OR you can accept that because youāre a human, youāre not gonna know everything, and accept that you were wrong and try to learn from your error.
I guess thatās a couple different things, but all of them are required if you want to become a successful coder. Basically what Iām saying is, your greatest strengths would be your willingness to learn and being able to accept criticism from anyone.
Anyways, hope this gives you something to think about!
Steven
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Thereās no need to accept unconstructive criticism, if someone just wants to rail at you for no good reason. Itās also advice that applies across every aspect of oneās life, I think. If you canāt accept constructive criticism, youāll likely not grow much in whatever aspect it is youāre trying to improve. 
To add to what @stevencopeland has said, though, as well as being able to accept constructive criticism and feedback on your work, you also need to be willing to accept that youāre not going to be able to do everything immediately.
One of the things Iāve found helpful, though your mileage may vary, is to set myself a āchallengeā of sorts. The whole reason I know any programming languages at all is because I thought āI wonder if I can build/code/design/program Xāā¦ then went off and learnt how to do it. Codecademy has been great for getting the basics of several things down, but along the way to getting my hobby projects off the ground Iāve bought numerous books and spent goodness knows how long reading documentation and articles to figure out how to do stuff.
In short, being willing to put in the time to get better and constantly improve what you can do will make you a better programmer. 
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Your greatest strength as a code is reading these long answers 
Just kidding, but you should read these answers!
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One word. Patience
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āBeing playful and willing to explore thingsā
Seriously. The amount of stuff I have learned over the years has been a result of of goofing off and mucking around with whatever I am learning. Today I spent what some may call āway too much timeā on question 4 in the āMini Linterā Javascript project. Instead of just using the āif statementā solution provided in the walk through video, I thought to myself āHow would I do this so that if the original list of overused words changes, my code will automatically adapt?ā The end result? I managed to write the below snippet of code using the iterating functions that the previous lessons dealt with. This in turn led to me better understand how they worked.
// Create array to store count of overusedWords with the same indexing as the original array.
let overusedWordCount = overusedWords.map(word => {
return 0;
});
// Declare function to increment each count in thd overusedWordCount array if the word is in the overusedWords array
let overusedWordCountIncrement = (word) => {
i = overusedWords.indexOf(word);
if (i > 0){
overusedWordCount[i] += 1;
}
};
// Read through each word in the array storyWords and pass the word to the overusedWordIncrement function.
for (word of storyWords){
overusedWordCountIncrement(word);
};
// Read the overused words to the screen as text from two arrays
for (let i = 0; i < overusedWords.length; i++) {
console.log(`${overusedWords[i]} : ${overusedWordCount[i]}`);
};
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My greatest strength is probably the encouragement I receive from my family, especially my dad, who installed Python on the computer, gave me a manual, and told me to get coding. (and who got me hooked up with 10+ coding courses which I burned through, the newest of which is Codecademy. Which is super awesome and definitely isnāt going to be in any way easy to āburn throughā but completely worthwhile. Also, I appreciate how Codecademy turns it not into ājust a courseā you finish, but continue to hone and practice. Thanks, Codecademy!! But anyway, I digressā¦)
Anyway, support helps. Also I just love coding. So thatās also quite helpful. 
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