- Taking responsibility for your journey in learning
to become a programmer and why it's important,
let's talk about that in today's video.
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Welcome back, my name is Tim Buchalka
with another programming tip of the day,
and we're talking about taking responsibility
for your success and or failure
in your journey to become a programmer.
And really, this applies to anything in life.
Now the reason this is coming up is that recently,
and I'm not gonna go into specifics,
but I've had someone who's been
trying to learn to become a programmer
taking one of my courses, and they've been quite abusive.
Quite abusive to the people who are trying to help them,
quite abusive in general to anyone
who's done anything to try and help them
you know, answer their questions and so on.
And again, I'm not going to go into
any more detail than that, but it made me think today
that this is a case of a person
who's taking no responsibility for their success.
They're looking for quick solutions
and they're looking to blame others
when really, in situations where you're
not succeeding in any aspect of life,
I think you need to start looking internally
and try and think what am I doing wrong here,
what aren't I learning, what's the lesson here?
So I think in that scenario, this is a person
who is not really picking up on the fact that
he's got an issue with not actually
going through and learning the material.
So he's looking for shortcuts is what
ultimately that comes back to,
and I think it's really important
when you go into a course learning how to programme
and go into the whole journey of becoming a programmer,
take ownership of it and really sort of say to yourself
it's up to me, if it's going to be, it's up to me.
So in other words, I need to make this work.
So we can't really look to blame
other people for our lack of success,
and it is easy to do that, I mean,
it's very easy to, as a human to look there and think,
oh, that course should have taught me how to do that,
or why isn't this computer fast enough or whatever it is,
there's always things to look at and blame.
But really, we need to come back
and look at ourselves and think,
okay, what do I need to do here to change?
So if you're getting bad results
from learning how to programme or if
you're finding that things are too hard,
what needs to change, is it the course?
And if you look at a course and it's got
thousands or tens of thousands of people
who have completed it and are happy with it
and you're not happy with it, the chances are
fairly high that the issue is with you.
I mean, it's very blunt, it's straight to the point,
but I think you do need to hear that
if you're in this situation where you're looking,
you know, you're annoyed and you're frustrated
and you're looking to blame someone else for your problems.
It's not to say that you need to give up,
certainly not, I'm not advocating you do that,
what I'm saying is just realise and accept the fact,
okay, I'm the problem here, I'm not getting something,
and what can you do to change?
'Cause it's an old saying that goes
along the lines of, if you do the same thing
every day and expect different results,
then that's the definition of insanity.
So in other words, if you're getting stuck
in a particular area of life or a particular video
or whatever it is, and you're doing the same thing
day in and day out, so in other words,
maybe you're doing the same type of study,
you're watching the same video for the same amount of time,
whatever it is, then maybe you need to change
what you're doing to get better results.
Because doing the same thing, it hasn't worked in the past,
chances are probably high that it's still not going to work.
So be mindful of that, if you're getting increasingly
frustrated and you feel you're not making progress,
to actually just take a step back
and think, okay, what am I doing wrong here?
What can I learn, what can I change with my current habits
to try and get a better result?
And by all means, use the Q and A section of a course
if we're talking about learning how to programme,
speak to a instructor or a helper
or someone there, ask a question and see if you can
get some input and get you back on track.
And speaking of questions, in tomorrow's video
I'm gonna talk to you about something very important
and that's the right way to ask a technical question,
and why that's important both when you're
learning how to programme, but also in your future career
as a programmer, but more on that tomorrow.
Alrighty, so I hope that helped,
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leave a comment and I'll get back to you.
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