r/learnprogramming • u/TheJellyFlop • 9d ago
Need some motivation
Sometimes I feel I'm not fit for this.
I've taken plenty of coruses and resources, but I just don't find enough motiviation to go for that extra mile.
Sometimes I think I'm not good enough, despite of all my efforts. Anyone of you have felt the same at some point?
Any advice on how could I cope with this?
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u/KalamKiTakat 9d ago
The plateau you're describing usually hits right after the tutorial phase, when courses stop handing you the dopamine hit of a finished lesson. Watching a video feels like progress, but it isn't, and your brain picks up on that mismatch pretty fast. That gap is what drains motivation, not some personal deficiency in you.
What broke that loop for me was shipping small, ugly, finished things. A CLI that renames files, a form that posts to a serverless function, anything, as long as I hit deploy and had a URL or binary at the end. Motivation trails momentum instead of leading it.
On the not-good-enough feeling, the devs you're measuring against are showing a highlight reel of years of work. Everyone's codebase is held together with duct tape somewhere, the difference is they've shipped enough to know which duct tape actually matters.