Daily Prompt: 2024-06-15
How do you stay motivated when learning a new skill that feels challenging?
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I allow myself to be tricked by gamification. Streaks, weekly rewards, etc. Motivation for different things will vary over time but if you do the 5 minute exercise it keeps your mind thinking about your long term goals. And when you feel highly motivated you can sprint and it will appear like progress comes out of nowhere but the progress actually came from the slow methodological work.
I'm mostly talking about learning a new language but this applies a lot to software engineering and planning new projects or refractors.