It is practice, but there’s a gift element involved too. My gift is that I enjoy ridiculously complex challenges. So I enjoyed learning and practicing code. Someone who doesn’t enjoy that, probably won’t enjoy learning to code, just like someone who doesn’t enjoy creating things won’t enjoy all the time it takes to learn how to draw well.
This is maybe less of a gift than you think and can also be learned with practice. It’s about having a growth mindset. If you practice framing things in terms of growing ability then everything becomes achievable and the challenge becomes enjoyable.
Yeah, cultivating a growth mindset is really, really important. And it really is cultivating…you’ll have a hundred reasons why you “can’t” knocking on your door, and you’ll have to be persistent to slay each one.
But once a “growth mindset” is habit, it gets easier.
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It is practice, but there’s a gift element involved too. My gift is that I enjoy ridiculously complex challenges. So I enjoyed learning and practicing code. Someone who doesn’t enjoy that, probably won’t enjoy learning to code, just like someone who doesn’t enjoy creating things won’t enjoy all the time it takes to learn how to draw well.
This is maybe less of a gift than you think and can also be learned with practice. It’s about having a growth mindset. If you practice framing things in terms of growing ability then everything becomes achievable and the challenge becomes enjoyable.
Yeah, cultivating a growth mindset is really, really important. And it really is cultivating…you’ll have a hundred reasons why you “can’t” knocking on your door, and you’ll have to be persistent to slay each one.
But once a “growth mindset” is habit, it gets easier.