We don’t tell new people that learning can be slow and frustrating and difficult sometimes, and that that’s just… normal. If learning is the #1 skill, persistence is probably #2. Some things just take time.
Learning is a skill on its own — something you get better at as you do it and as you figure out what works for you.
If it’s a topic I find boring or difficult, I’ve learned that I can make it more engaging by immediately using whatever I just read (e.g. by writing a blog post or an internal document summarising what I just learned
My brain has infinite patience for reading about things that I want to write about or teach to someone else.
I can learn theory forever, but there’s nothing that cements the knowledge like using it in a project.
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