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One of my favourite articles of all time is Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig. The synopsis of the article is to learn slower, as in, building good skills, worthwhile skills like programming take time.
You see courses teaching speed learning or speed reading, or do X in 24-hours and get fit in six weeks. And it’s clear the modern world loves speed, but speed is a marketing tactic.
I’ve been spending time on a farm, and if you go into nature for long enough you’ll see Mother Nature doesn’t wear a watch. Everything moves at its own pace. Going the speed it needs to go.
So knowing this and knowing the modern world loves speed. A real good way to differentiate yourself is to create your own timeline.
Use your biology as a clock.
If you’re trying to learn something, challenge yourself yes but let it go at the pace it needs to go. And if something becomes boring, abandon it.
School does a terrible job of making learning feel like you have to learn this, you have to learn that. Simultaneously convincing you to learn everything and leaving you feeling like you know nothing. And if it’s not hard, you’re not doing it right.
