Mindset of Every Succesful Programer :

Sonia Khan
3 min read2 days ago

If I could change just one thing about
the time I spent learning to code it
wouldn’t be the tutorial I chose or the
language I started off with it would a
hundred and ten percent be these mindset
changes so I’m just going to get
straight into them okay so the first one
is focus on practice not Theory when I
was first getting started I stumbled
across a blog post on the internet where
I read something like the 10 000 hour
rule to Mastery it said that if you
spend 10 000 hours doing something
you’ll eventually become a master at it
in my head I understood that as let me
go read a bunch of books and watch a
bunch of tutorials on programming for
ten thousand hours and the quicker I can
do that the better programmer I’ll
become My Philosophy now is a lot more
different and it’s more the ten thousand
lines of code approach so how quickly
can I get to 10 000 lines of code where
every thousandth line is better than the
last one coding or programming is a
craft and you get better at it by being
inefficient slow and bad it’s a lot more
like woodworking playing an instrument
drawing than it is like law or history
or Finance or anything that’s very
information dense finally this point or
this mindset is really helpful in making
you avoid tutorial help and if this
video reaches say 10 likes
I’ll make a step-by-step guide on how to
get out of tutorial hell alright Point
number two is ego is the enemy so when I
was…

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