"Just keep coding every day, and eventually it will click."
This advice sounds perfectly reasonable. After all, practice makes perfect, right?
Every coding bootcamp, YouTube guru, and LinkedIn influencer preaches the same gospel: consistency is king, and if you're struggling, you just need to code more.
Letā€™s analyse this BS
This advice comes from two groups, both of whom have zero incentive to help you succeed efficiently.
First, course creators need you to buy more and more courseā€”because the more you believe you need to know the more revenue they make.
Making you feel "good enough" is bad for their business.
Second, it comes from developers who learned to code at 22 through CS degrees, had no responsibilities, unlimited time, and a safety net.
They genuinely can't comprehend why you can't just "grind LeetCode for 4 hours after dinner, after a long days work and after you put the kids to bed"
The Price You Pay
You're burning out trying to squeeze coding practice between work, family dinners, and mortgage payments.
When you can't maintain their impossible standards, you blame yourself.
"Maybe I'm not cut out for this," you think, watching 25-year-olds on Reddit talk about their 8-hour daily coding marathons.
You're not failing because you lack disciplineā€”you're failing because you're following advice designed for people living completely different lives.
You're trying to do in 3 hours what they did in 20.
Real Talk?
Learning to code isn't magicā€”it's physics.
