Learning hard things is very demoralizing, because learning hard things is fucking hard. It makes you feel stupid. Learning to code sucks. It seems like everyon

Learning hard things is very demoralizing, because learning hard things is fucking hard. It makes you feel stupid. Learning to code sucks. It seems like everyone on HN is a gifted natural coding form age 8, while you're just stuck trying to make your stupid loop not give you a syntax error. But that's not true. Only 1% or so of people on HN are like that (approximate guess). The rest of us all learned the same way. Getting stuck on some bullshit trivial syntax error for years, while feeling like an idiot. That's just what coding is. Please don't lose motivation. I know it's hard and demoralizing, but I strongly encourage you to not give up hope. Even now I'm learning a new language (clojure) and despite 'knowing how to code' and working in this field for 3+ years, I still spent all day setting up a development environment and learning to loop through a list. That's just how it goes. I still feel like the same idiot I was on day 1. Except now younger people at work look up to me, as though I actually can code or know what I'm doing. How this happened I do not know. All I know is that I kept at it every day for years, starting from that first day when I tried to understand what a difference between a list and a dictionary is.