2-Minute Rule to Learn Coding - Atomic Habits
2-Minute Rule to Learn Coding - Atomic Habits
In this video, I will cover best Coding Habits to Adopt in 2023. I’ll also talk about How To Stay Motivated When Learning To Code. This will help you learn coding efficiently.
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0 -> Do you ever feel like you are just watching online
video tutorials but not actually getting closer
4.26 -> to becoming a Software Engineer? You always
tell yourself that this time, you are going
8.22 -> to finish the online course you started. But
when you actually sit down to learn coding,
12.06 -> it just feels like any other boring task like
washing dishes or doing laundry. And you find
16.92 -> it impossible to make any progress. So, the
question is “How do you stay motivated
20.82 -> when learning to code?”. And that’s where
Atomic Habits by James Clear comes in. If
24.48 -> you have not heard about this book, you are
probably not into self help books at all. This book
28.38 -> answers questions like What are habit loops? How
to prime your environment to make progress on your
32.7 -> goals? And How to use Dopamine Spikes to stick
to good habits? By answering all these questions,
37.26 -> I will show how you can build the life changing
habit of learning programming. Let’s do this.
41.7 -> Imagine a plane taking off from Los Angeles
for New York. Just before the take off,
46.44 -> the pilot accidentally changes the flight path by
3.5 degrees which is almost negligible. It’s such
52.14 -> a small change that neither the cabin crew nor the
passengers notice anything. When the plane lands,
56.7 -> the passengers find themselves doing a sniff
test because they are walking on the clean
61.02 -> streets of Washington DC instead of New York. The
point is that very small changes can completely
66.48 -> change the trajectory of our lives. And
just like the cabin crew and the passengers,
70.14 -> we do not see the immediate results
of these changes. But in the long run,
73.8 -> the effect of these tiny changes compound and
the final outcome can be very different.
78.12 -> As a new programmer, you would think that you
need to build something revolutionary to make
82.14 -> it into the tech industry. But in reality, all you
need to do is take small steps towards your goal
86.94 -> everyday and you will be there before you know it.
Keep scrolling Instagram or watching Youtube and
90.96 -> you will be no better programmer than today in one
year. Build tiny atomic habits that help you learn
95.76 -> programming every day and you will be very close
to landing that Software Engineer job in one year.
99.96 -> Building habits is fine but sticking to
them is where the real challenge lies. That’s
104.22 -> because you might not feel that your programming skills
are improving from day to day. When you start
108.18 -> learning programming, you expect to see a linear
improvement. But here is what actually happens.
112.38 -> In the beginning, you will not see any results.
James Clear calls this part of the graph “The
117.48 -> valley of disappointment”. This is where most
people lose motivation, give up and go back to
122.16 -> their old habits. But in reality, the returns for
your effort are actually delayed. Once you go past
127.56 -> this initial phase, you will start feeling
like a superhuman. Learning a new language,
131.4 -> building projects and getting a job you want will
suddenly start coming naturally to you. And when
135.78 -> you look back at that first piece of code you
wrote, you will definitely laugh at yourself. My
139.8 -> wife and I still make fun of the first portfolio
website I made, to this day. By the way, that's
144.6 -> not the website I made. I am too ashamed to show
my website but I will just say this. The website
149.16 -> I made had this rotating cube where each side of
the cube had the name of one of my tech skills.
153.6 -> Anyway, in the rest of the video,
155.22 -> we will not just learn how to build these
atomic habits but also how to stick to them.
159.36 -> Let’s start with how to build the habit of
learning programming. Before I can answer that,
163.38 -> we first need to understand how we build any
new habit. And that’s where “Habit Loop” comes
167.7 -> in. Cue, Carving, Response, Reward. That’s
the loop that builds any good or bad habit
172.68 -> that we repeat over and over again. Let’s
understand the habit loop with the help of a
176.58 -> bad habit that we all suffer from. The phone
vibrates, that’s your Cue. You crave to see
181.38 -> who the notification is from. Response, you
pick up the phone. And the reward, 30 minutes
186.42 -> of Dopamine release scrolling Instagram. Cue,
feeling bored with the video tutorial. Craving,
191.4 -> want to see something entertaining. Response, pick
up the phone. Reward, watched entertaining Mrbeast
197.34 -> videos for another hour. Soon, your mind starts
making associations between watching youtube when
202.5 -> you're getting bored with the tutorial. And you end
up building the bad habit of wasting your time
206.4 -> during your programming session. But can you
use the same habit loop to build good habits?
210.6 -> Let’s start with the Cue. When you want to
learn programming, what is that one thing that
214.5 -> you need with you without which you can not even
start your lesson? No, I am not talking about a
218.28 -> cup of coffee here. I am talking about your
laptop. Can you use your laptop as your cue
222.42 -> and guilt you into learning programming? The
answer is Yes and that’s exactly what James
226.92 -> Clear recommends in Atomic Habits. He suggests
you should make your cue unmissable by placing
231.66 -> it in the middle of your room - in full view.
Even better if you
234.48 -> can place it where you waste the most amount
of your time. If you play a lot of video games,
238.02 -> place it near your gaming chair so
it’s visible when you start a new game.
242.04 -> Cue alone would not be sufficient, you also
need to use implementation intentions to your
246.54 -> advantage. Studies have shown that often why
people don’t stick to good habits is not because
250.92 -> of lack of motivation, but because they don’t
have clarity of what they want to achieve. When
255 -> you say “Tomorrow, I will learn programming”.
It’s just an intention that has no clarity. So,
259.14 -> instead of saying that, you should attach an
implementation plan to your intention. So,
263.22 -> instead of just learning programming, you
should say something like “Everytime the
266.88 -> alarm goes off in the morning, I would get up
and do a programming lesson for 2 hours on my
271.14 -> desk”. By making this small change, you
will provide your mind clarity on what to
274.98 -> do right after you wake up. Another way to do
the same thing is by stacking habits. Stacking
279.3 -> habits simply means attaching the new habit
you want to build with a current habit. So,
283.08 -> instead of doing a programming lesson when the alarm goes off, you would say something like “Right after I brush my teeth,
288.54 -> which I hope is a habit you have already built,
I would do a programming lesson for 2 hours on
293.28 -> my desk”. If you stack habits like this, you are
more likely to stick to them if you practice them
298.02 -> long enough. And don’t forget to place your laptop
in the middle of the room for this to work.
302.1 -> Cue along with implementation intention
will give you the motivation you need to start
305.88 -> learning programming. But, this motivation
by itself is not enough to keep you going.
309.48 -> That's because we humans don’t do things
for which we get nothing in return.
312.9 -> To understand why that is, we need to first
learn about the motivation hormone, Dopamine.
318.24 -> In 1954, neuroscientists did a study where they
blocked the release of Dopamine in lab rats with
324.24 -> the help of electrodes. And what they found was
astonishing. Without Dopamine, these rats lost
329.52 -> their will to eat, drink or reproduce. And as
a result, all of them died. This sad experiment
335.16 -> tells us how important Dopamine is for motivation
and here is how it affects us humans. Dopamine is
340.92 -> released every time you swipe up on an Instagram
reel. And the same Dopamine is also released
345.06 -> when people do drugs. In both cases, Dopamine is
responsible for creating the cravings that make
350.28 -> us perform these bad actions again and again
to a point where these actions become our habits.
354.48 -> But can we trick ourselves into using
the same Dopamine to build good habits?
358.08 -> Before I answer that, if you want
to give me a huge Dopamine spike,
361.44 -> you can subscribe to the channel.
363.06 -> Moving on, an engineering student from Ireland named Ronan managed to use Dopamine to his advantage. Ronan wanted to become fit by
370.2 -> exercising more but he could not find motivation to workout.
Instead he would spend hours watching
375.36 -> Netflix. So, what did he do to exercise more?
He combined the two. He connected his bike to
380.22 -> the laptop and wrote a program that would let
him watch Netflix only if he was cycling above
384.42 -> a certain speed. This is called Temptation
bundling. You take something that you already
388.32 -> enjoy doing and use it as a reward for the
habit that you want to build. Here’s how
392.28 -> you can use temptation bundling to help you
progress in your programming lessons. You can
396.48 -> write a program that tracks the amount of time
you spend in your code editor. This program can
400.68 -> then use this time to control the amount of time
you get to spend on your phone. By doing this,
404.82 -> you can directly tie learning programming
to a habit that you already enjoy doing.
408.6 -> If anyone in the Power Community wants to
take up the challenge to build this program,
412.26 -> let me know in the comments. I will make sure to
share your program with everyone in the community.
416.46 -> Another thing that can help you build the habit
of programming is “The 2 minute rule”. When you
421.02 -> set unrealistic goals for yourself, it becomes
very difficult to stay motivated to work on them.
425.52 -> James Clear recommends making habit building easy
by taking small steps every day. He recommends
430.38 -> starting with only 2 minutes a day. For example,
if you want to build the habit of reading more,
434.28 -> you can start by reading just 2 minutes
a day. And if the book is interesting,
438.06 -> you will be reading much more than that
in no time. For programming in Java,
442.02 -> that would mean writing this “public static void
main'' function. And that would do us no good. So,
446.94 -> here is what I recommend: “2 exercises a
day”. And if you stick to it for 30 days,
451.14 -> I am very sure that you will be doing much
more than 2 exercises in a day at the end.
454.74 -> If you are willing to take this as a challenge,
write “#30DayChallenge” in the comments.
459.12 -> Come back after 30 days and post a reply to this
comment to share your progress. I’ll be waiting.
463.68 -> Building the habit to learn coding is
one thing, but being efficient when learning to
467.58 -> code is even more important. If you want
to know how to learn more in less time,
471.06 -> watch this video. My name is Sahil
and I will see you in the next one.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25RdTDN2Trg