I'm trying to teach myself foot juggling (a.k.a. keepie uppie), fundamentally it's not hard, it just takes a lot of practice. Many of my friends growing up were

I'm trying to teach myself foot juggling (a.k.a. keepie uppie), fundamentally it's not hard, it just takes a lot of practice. Many of my friends growing up were really good at it. I could never understand how they were so good and I couldn't do it at all. I'm not sure whether programming is hard or not, but when my friends were practicing keepie uppie in their back yards, I was practicing programming There are concepts that are hard to understand in the abstract, but one of the things that a good programmer has practiced is how to understand those kinds of concepts 10,000 hours is an overly literal idea, but IMVHO the core requirement for a large amount of intentional practice is the most significant hard truth about programming