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I have been having one of those days, well weeks where new concepts that would have otherwise taken a few hours, to learn and implement are taking days !! I don't know how y'all consistently learn new things and implement them, while still meeting deadlines.

My team usually holds weekly progress meetings where we discuss completed tasks and the following week's tasks. During the last meeting, I hadn't completed anything worth noting and I had no major reason other than, not having fully understood the concept.
Which is embarrassing because everyone else had done something.

I know, I know, I shouldn't compare myself to others but we all know my boss does. I don't blame him though, I mean I always pick the cake with more icing, and that's just food!

I don't even know what to do about it anymore!!! Is this a phase? Is it normal? What do people do about it? wait it out?

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    @norman70688 perhaps even months :(
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    I just kind of grew out of it, one thing that really helped me though was actually not thinking about the deadline coming up.

    I'd read the documentation on the pattern/ new API / whatever as slowly as I could understand it and then slowly implement it.

    If I try implementing something without truly understanding it I notice I either start writing bad code or it's going slower than if I initially took some time to give it a good read.

    Then again I usually pickup new things quite easily since 90% of my job is literally doing things I've never done before so I got used to it.🤷
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    Adderall™
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