I struggle with the same things; perfectionism, comparison, feeling like I'm not improving/learning fast enough, etc. There's a great mantra I learned at my company which is "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast". Apparently it's from the military but it really is beneficial for me to not freak out if I'm not "improving"/learning fast enough. When I feel those feelings, I ask myself am I better than yesterday? If so, then I have to celebrate that since that is an improvement and get outside or do something else non developer related so I can come back fresh the next day. If not, then I ask myself what can I learn right now to be better than yesterday? With web development, I have a slewwww of things I can learn so it's an easy question to answer.
Understand concepts and methods through and through so that you spend less time on research, or at least learn the right keywords to find it again, but faster.
Yes to this! I'm a believer in nailing the foundations of the technology at hand so I can answer the why, what, and how of x when x will inevitably break in Safari or IE11.
Thank you again for your wisdom and reminders. Fuck perfectionism.
Great post, thank you for sharing!
I struggle with the same things; perfectionism, comparison, feeling like I'm not improving/learning fast enough, etc. There's a great mantra I learned at my company which is "Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast". Apparently it's from the military but it really is beneficial for me to not freak out if I'm not "improving"/learning fast enough. When I feel those feelings, I ask myself am I better than yesterday? If so, then I have to celebrate that since that is an improvement and get outside or do something else non developer related so I can come back fresh the next day. If not, then I ask myself what can I learn right now to be better than yesterday? With web development, I have a slewwww of things I can learn so it's an easy question to answer.
Yes to this! I'm a believer in nailing the foundations of the technology at hand so I can answer the why, what, and how of
xwhenxwill inevitably break in Safari or IE11.Thank you again for your wisdom and reminders. Fuck perfectionism.
I learned that from my Grandmaster! It's so true in every aspect of life.