Bharat Agarwal
Aug 31, 2018 · 1 min read

I’m a slow-paced learner, and like to indulge in a certain amount of detouring before moving on to the next topic. Being self-paced is perfect for that, and there’s the certainty that even if you get lost in rabbit-holes, there’s a solid curriculum and support system to come back to. I think the intimacy you get with the subject by wandering can be the difference between knowing something, and liking something.

I’ve seen myself falter and fall behind due to this both with a traditional classroom during my undergraduate education, and a web development bootcamp. I remember sitting through a two-hour lecture on ReactJS with an incomplete knowledge of OO JS, and wouldn’t wish that feeling of being lost on anyone.

I keep thinking to myself that if I’d been prescribed ‘Mastery’ as a reading in the first class of my architectural education, I’d probably have come out as a damn good architect. It’s such a simple formula, spend a good number of honest hours every day on something, and everything else is noise.

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