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Alina Antemir
10,185 PointsThank you, I needed this so much!
I am having difficulties with keeping up with my tech degree. Getting frustrated I am not doing it fast enough...This video came just in time to remind me that journey is more important than destination...
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Alina Antemir
10,185 PointsHi Aurelian, please accept my apologies. I miss read your comment. Thank you so much for your encouraging words and sorry again.
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 PointsDon't worry, there were few places, when reading this back, that I could have written this in a better way which could lead to confusion :)
PS. usually a journey is made for a destination. You need to have a purpose in life.
The journey is more important than the destination, it depends on what context. If I think about helping people, then the journey is more important because there is no destination that is perhaps realistic, but by any means, it's possible.
It's like saying to have a 100% peace in the world, a very big goal, right, and this isn't going to change overnight. Well, if you do something that will help other people, then you are achieving, it, basically you are changing the world, but it might not change in your lifetime.
BUT, if you want to change the world, going with the context of having a peace in the world, you must possess a skill, you must influence and bring value to others, which first you need to create. This is where the journey comes with the destination of learning to achieve something, where now you will have a Journey that will last a lifetime.
Now, don't get me wrong, I wish I could go back to times where I was learning HTML and CSS, it was fun, it was also fun because I had an okay environment and enough food - that might be different for others.
Though, when learning to program, the journey is the process that it takes, to have our brain understand the logic etc.. to be a programmer. Once you're a programmer, this becomes a lot easier, and you got in the process, the time required and effort, to become one.
I don't know, I just think people are too much into one thing, that misleads them, so I write this lol this is my thought, my little experience that I have, and other people experience like from John Sonmez.
Though you might look this from many sides, and there are many variations to this. The most important skill is to trust yourself, and know what you're after. Not letting anyone tell you if you're wrong or not - as those people, most of the time aren't happy with their lives anyway. There's nothing wrong with them, but really, the person that knows this the best is you.
I know that I suck at JavaScript. I realise it. I realise that I'm skinny and perhaps I might not like my body, but I need to realise it and take the required steps to change it, I can't hide or put my head in the sand if I want to change this.
Lol, think I'm getting off the context, but hope it helped!
Alina Antemir
10,185 PointsHi Aurelian Spodarec! Your comment made my day! :). I totally agree with you! Thank you for taking the time to write it, I liked your explanation and I understand better what you meant in the first place. Are you doing the Tech Degree as well?
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 PointsHello, Alina :)
II'm not doing the Tech Degree, once I can afford it, I'll sure do it! I think it's a good exercise for the brain with the extra few hundred challenges? and quizzes? :)
I did have a look at the Tech degree, and well, I don't know if this would be good for me. It depends what you want to get out of it. I don't know the teachers that well either, as they are 'just' programmers that specialises in different things, which means there might be better programmers that do specific things. What I'm interested, well, Guil might be good for this, it depends on his experience. But if I was to go with tech degree, id go with Guil, as my teacher for the 60min calls in the week?
Well, mentoring is what I need now xd from someone much more advanced In what I'm doing, which is front-end architecture - since the resource are limited out there really :D seriously: p I think that there comes this point in education, that if you want to get better, you must pay, you just must. If you say a veteran, Google isn't going to help you. Books and other people will : p or specific dedicated blogs for it.
lol I write so much :D
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 PointsDamn! My English is soo bad! I hardly understand myself xD Though it's late night, and I can't think about grammar xd
It, is, this, strange, grammar, mistakes, I make, to Put everywhere the comma.
Lol nah. I did soo many grammar mistakes and structured the sentences badly lol
It'll get better though! I use the Grammary chrome extensions, and it helps me to understand where I did the mistake, so I can correct it. So far, it helps!
EDIT: See, I know this :D I can now improve on it :D and btw, there is always a room for improvement! You're never going to be perfect! :) but you might reach a level where it will be very good, perhaps you could be the 1%, but there is always more to improve.
Also, when doing things, the return get's diminished the more you know.
Ah, I need to go sleep :D
Aurelian Spodarec
10,801 PointsAurelian Spodarec
10,801 PointsThe journey will have an end eventually. You're doing something because you want to accomplish whatever that might be.
The journey has no end, so why bother. The end will be only when we will die.
Coding is frustrating, but the more you learn, and the more experience you will have, the easier it will come. Understand why is it that you're getting frustrated, and now that this is the part of the process.
It will take time to improve. If you can't do it fast enough, then you are going to fall back when the technology is moving too fast. There are ways you can learn this faster, however it's going to be harder when starting out, but eventually you will be able to learn it fast.
Id rather focus on concentrating on the core concept, and follow the tech degree as a guideline, not a religion.
As long as you're making progress that's good, but if you're sitting in this for 10years still trying to learn this, then i don't think you must like the journey. Do you think the journey in got 40+ degrees, with no water and food is fun? I bet it's not.
Try to find new ways and experiment on things. Find a system that'll work for you.