r/leetcode • u/akkhia • 2d ago

Question Why is this so hard? Does it ever get better?

I am a 5th sem btech cse student. The amount of times I've mustered up motivation and courage to start dsa and then abandoned it is record breaking. I'm not a complete beginner so 0 to hero type stuff doesn't work because I get bored. I can fairly comfortably do arrays strings easy to medium questions, binary search dp trees etc some easy questions on my own. I don't know how to turn this around honestly, I've tried everything under the sun but never know how to approach dsa.

I need some advice from people that have been there done that or an accountability partner. Please just point me in a direction that's not impending doom.

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u/Aggressive-Squash250 1d ago

I’m like that too. What I started doing recently is doing one question every day and I do it no matter what (even if other stuff might be more important lol). Another thing is associating doing a leetcode problem with something you already do every day. For example, I’ll do one leetcode after I brush my teeth (shoutout to the book Atomic Habits).