Eve Porcello Chats With Kent About Sustainably Expanding Skills

Chats with Kent C. Dodds

A lot of times, when people are learning something new, they feel, "Oh, I have to learn this fast and my manager's counting on me to learn this," and everything's super stressful. As software engineers, we continually have to learn new things, and carrying that stress is tough on our mental health, so we must learn how to mitigate it.

Don't worry about being an expert. Try to be okay with being a beginner at something. You shouldn't expect more than that from yourself when you start learning something new.

It's essential to break your goal down into multiple steps so that it's not this vast, daunting leap that you have to take. Smaller steps of minor discomfort are a lot easier to cope with.

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Homework

• Think of one goal you have and take 10 minutes to break it down into smaller chunks

Resources

• React Rally 2018: Everything You Need to Know About GraphQL in 3 Components; Eve Procello
• Moon Highway

Guest: Eve Porcello

• Twitter: @eveporcello
• GitHub: @eveporcello

Host: Kent C. Dodds

• Website: kentcdodds.com
• Twitter: @kentcdodds
• GitHub: @kentcdodds
• YouTube: Kent C. Dodds
• Epic React: epicreact.dev