I have plenty of courses on my Udemy account but never watched the most or haven’t finished them.
I LOLed. I don't think there is a single person walking the earth who has watched all their Udemy courses (or even a fraction of them) till the end. Udemy courses straight up suck 95% of the time because they always feature the obvious stuff for a prolonged time. They are made for absolute beginners.
Anyway, please realize the following: Dan Abramov isn't a better developer particularly because he created Redux. There are a lot of people who created some libraries or came up with some sort of technical implementation. Dan Abramov was fortunate enough that he did the right thing at the right time and it gained traction. That alone doesn't make him more knowledgable than you. You may close on this thought by saying he was at the right time at the right place.
During my first few years of using JavaScript, I felt like a fraud. Even though I could build websites with frameworks, something was missing. I dreaded JavaScript job interviews because I didn’t have a solid grasp on fundamentals.
What I would say though, is, that Dan is an excellent writer - maybe even better than he is a developer. I also think he has a few other, advantageous traits that helped him to get where he is now, but that's on another topic.
So relax. You're doing good. Dan is doing good. Everybody is doing good. Don't degrade or elevate yourself or anyone based on where you or anyone is. If you feel you lack some knowledge or some skill, isolate that realization from any judgment and expectation. Then go and look it up. Feel better afterward.
Your words somehow brought some relief to my heart. If I feel like a fraud it doesn't really mean that I'm a fraud. This bad feeling makes me not see what the good stuff I've done so far and the skills that I'm good in.
We're here to (re)learn by our mistakes, and that's beautiful :)
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I LOLed. I don't think there is a single person walking the earth who has watched all their Udemy courses (or even a fraction of them) till the end. Udemy courses straight up suck 95% of the time because they always feature the obvious stuff for a prolonged time. They are made for absolute beginners.
Anyway, please realize the following: Dan Abramov isn't a better developer particularly because he created Redux. There are a lot of people who created some libraries or came up with some sort of technical implementation. Dan Abramov was fortunate enough that he did the right thing at the right time and it gained traction. That alone doesn't make him more knowledgable than you. You may close on this thought by saying he was at the right time at the right place.
Right now he is (re)learning JavaScript, particularly by teaching it to others. And by the way, the first sentence in one of his recent articles is saying exactly what you are fighting with:
What I would say though, is, that Dan is an excellent writer - maybe even better than he is a developer. I also think he has a few other, advantageous traits that helped him to get where he is now, but that's on another topic.
So relax. You're doing good. Dan is doing good. Everybody is doing good. Don't degrade or elevate yourself or anyone based on where you or anyone is. If you feel you lack some knowledge or some skill, isolate that realization from any judgment and expectation. Then go and look it up. Feel better afterward.
Your words somehow brought some relief to my heart. If I feel like a fraud it doesn't really mean that I'm a fraud. This bad feeling makes me not see what the good stuff I've done so far and the skills that I'm good in.
We're here to (re)learn by our mistakes, and that's beautiful :)