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Discussion on: I keep feeling demotivated when I realize how deficient my knowledge is.

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Ali Rizvi

Don't sell yourself short. You've got more knowledge than the average web developer. Think about it, you've already learned so many awesome things, JQuery, Bootstrap, you know PHP, you can manage SQL databases, that's quite a lot of stuff. You should also realize you didn't start off knowing anything about these. For comparison, I also try to program HTML and such, and I barely know enough about CSS.

The point is you, me, and every other dev.to poster didn't start off knowing Vue.js, React, or others. Everyone learned something, but they started knowing nothing about it, just like how it was for you with everything you know.

It may seem overwhelming, given how many various frameworks pop up here and there, but you need to recognize that (a) you're already pretty proficient in web development, (b) you can always learn these things, just like how you learned what you currently know, and (c) everyone else also struggles to keep up with tons of stuff, what's not important is how fast, but rather how you adapt.