A big part of my thirties has been making peace with the reality that I'm not that guy, and trying to balance that with still wanting to excel in the ways I can.
I don't have a better answer for you than the ones already posted here, but I am genuinely curious to read the responses to this.
Better to put it to yourself as - I am like that guy but on my own scale around my own interests.
If you can't yield things that half of the world adores, yield smaller ones.
If you can't yield smaller ones, yield one liners.
You have to have some way of yielding stuff that you fall in love with - even if it's flat directory with one liner scripts.
Practice is all there is to it. People have problems with it because they want to bite gigantic pieces in one day. It's more about falling in love with practice than falling in love with end result.
ps. pro tip - every time you solved some kind of problem - an issue you've been struggling for longer, a bug or whatever that didn't work - stop, go back in time, imagine yourself replaying it again - ask yourself questions - knowing the answer now, what could have I done/checked/asked/whatever that would have led me to solution faster? What did I miss at the beginning? Which were dead ends that I knew were wrong but I did them anyway etc. - you just need to do it couple of dozen of times to see substantial improvements in your skills.
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A big part of my thirties has been making peace with the reality that I'm not that guy, and trying to balance that with still wanting to excel in the ways I can.
I don't have a better answer for you than the ones already posted here, but I am genuinely curious to read the responses to this.
Better to put it to yourself as - I am like that guy but on my own scale around my own interests.
If you can't yield things that half of the world adores, yield smaller ones.
If you can't yield smaller ones, yield one liners.
You have to have some way of yielding stuff that you fall in love with - even if it's flat directory with one liner scripts.
Practice is all there is to it. People have problems with it because they want to bite gigantic pieces in one day. It's more about falling in love with practice than falling in love with end result.
ps. pro tip - every time you solved some kind of problem - an issue you've been struggling for longer, a bug or whatever that didn't work - stop, go back in time, imagine yourself replaying it again - ask yourself questions - knowing the answer now, what could have I done/checked/asked/whatever that would have led me to solution faster? What did I miss at the beginning? Which were dead ends that I knew were wrong but I did them anyway etc. - you just need to do it couple of dozen of times to see substantial improvements in your skills.