Tutorial Paralysis, information overload, hoarding and never completing online courses (How large are your Udemy and Coursera libraries?)…
This is the pain we’re increasingly hearing about in conversations with developers and it’s more common than you may realise.
It’s real, it’s crippling and it can make you feel like you’re going nowhere.
Even if you do manage to complete a course, is it what you needed? What next? Another course? Then what?
The reality is that nothing beats actual coding and implementation. This is where the real learning and growth happens.
It may be easier said than done, but the best time to do it is yesterday.
That’s why we recommend that anybody stuck in tutorial purgatory do the following:
1. Don’t be hard on yourself. It happens. What matters is what you do next. Also tutorials in and by themselves are not bad, they give you a good understanding of fundamental concepts, what matters is how you apply what you read.
2. Pause and reflect on what your actual goal is. Without this clear vision on what you want it’s easy to waste your time consuming content that really gets you nowhere. (Is that Blockchain tutorial really going to get you where you need to be?)
3. Make a plan on precisely what you need to do to reach that goal. Our free 6 Key Ingredients of a Successful Pythonista training (particularly day 5) can help you with this.
4. Follow the plan. Consistently. Show up every day, even when you don’t feel like it. Once you’re done, we want to see your goal and your plan.
Our very first podcast episode was about tutorial paralysis and serves as a companion to this article 😎
We’d love to hear what plan you came up with so comment below or shoot us a message. If you want help book a free assessment call using the link below.
And lastly it can be hard to go at it alone, we have a vibrant Python community a.k.a. The PyBites Slack that has 3k+ members! You can join here and start building valuable relationships. See you there…