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Tiny Leaps, Big Changes

Gregg Clunis

Mental Health, Health & Fitness

4.2 • 917 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I share how I went from finding coding intimidating to becoming a competent software engineer through consistent, repeated practice over 2 years.

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Takeaways:

Having a strong motivation helped me persist through the tough learning process
Repeating behaviors reinforces neural pathways, making skills feel more natural
All new skills feel clumsy and frustrating at first, but mastery comes through repetition
To learn new skills, just start doing the thing - even if you're bad at first - and keep doing it

Book Recommendation:

https://www.amazon.com/Talent-Code-Greatness-Born-Grown/dp/055380684X

Transcript

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0:00.0	In this, I share my secret to learning new skills.
0:05.6	Get excited because this is tiny leaps.
0:11.1	Big ch, big Chico. Welcome. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, where I share simple strategies
0:30.5	you can use to get more out of your life. My name is Greg Klunis. So about two years ago I decided to learn to code and it was really really intimidating. This is something that I had tried and
0:45.5	failed at for many many years. I actually have a minor in computer science from
0:51.5	when I was in college because I at some point decided to
0:55.1	major in computer science and I just couldn't do it. I had passed enough of my
1:01.2	classes that I finished with the minor, but I just could not think in the way that these other students could.
1:09.0	And for a long time, that was the story that I told myself, that coding was something I was interested in. It was something that I enjoyed the idea of, but that my brain just didn't work that way. It just couldn't. I was not able to understand things the way that you needed to in
1:29.6	order to be a software engineer. And I accepted that.
1:34.0	Fast forward, probably a decade or so,
1:38.0	and I finally decided I'm going to commit to the idea of learning to code.
1:43.3	And I did this for a number of reasons.
1:45.4	The biggest one, the biggest motivation for me
1:47.4	at the time was that I had a specific project
1:50.9	that was the app for this community that I wanted to work on.
1:54.3	I wanted to build.
1:55.3	That was it.
1:56.1	I just wanted to get this thing out into the world.
2:00.2	And I didn't have enough money to hire an engineer.
2:03.2	So the natural response was, I'm just going to learn how to build it.
2:06.2	This is an important thing that I want to call out in this episode
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