I am starting my learning journey and I often feel overwhelmed by the amount of things to learn. What advice would you give to a complete beginner about choosing what to learn and staying consistent?
I am starting my learning journey and I often feel overwhelmed by the amount of things to learn. What advice would you give to a complete beginner about choosing what to learn and staying consistent?
You’ll never get anywhere in life or achieve anything by being vague like this.
Be specific. “i want to run fast” is a fairly meaningless statement. Saying “I want to be able to run a 7 minute mile.” is a reasonable goal you can likely achieve, if you can already run one in 8-10 minutes.
If you want to learn something, you have to approach it with a plan/road map, and be realistic of how much effort and time it will take to achieve and persevere when it gets difficult or unrewarding.
And don’t be dissuaded by people’s weird and negative feedback to your own personal goals. I have been studying Russian for two years and anyone I tell someone about it they feel the need to inform me how stupid it is or ask me if I’m a communist.
But if you’re having a miserable time all the time, it’s OK to give up and it’s probably not for you. That’s how I felt about programming, despite all the pressure for years I felt to ‘become a programmer’.