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I don't know if that's something that has happened only to me, just wanted to share my experience.

I'm close to finishing the React section of the Javascript Fullstack path (I'm at the Context API lesson) and today I realized something about me that changed the more time I've spend with TOP:

I can learn new stuff.

Now, this may sound weird to some of you, but for me that is a game changer. I remember several years back I would get results from MDN when I searched something related to webdev and I would get completely overwhelmed by the amount of text and I woud just quit and I thought "yeah, that's not for me" and In general, I always had that thinking that I can't learn things on my own and I gave up before even trying.

After that much time spend on The Odin Project, that mindset has been COMPLETELY OBLITERATED.

Yesterday I was doing some job searching for frontend positions and I kept seeing "knowledge of Websockets" as a requirement and at first I kept discarding those job offers and then I was like "wait, I can just open MDN and learn the fundamentals of it by reading the documentation" and that's exactly what I did. I'm not an expert at it, but after several hours of reading different sources and documentation I have a very good gist of what it is and how it works. Something that would've NEVER happen before TOP.

The title may sound a bit offensive and mock-y, but that's not my intention (I hope I don't break rule 3). I'm just curious, because I constantly see posts and progress reports of people doing 3,4,5,6, etc hours a day, reaching 1500 hours in 1 year, which to me - someone with full time job (40 hour weeks) just seem insane.

I'm doing 2 hours a day and even that seems insane to me and I'm barely able to squeeze it in my time schedule and I'm someone with no responsibilities outside of work, no kids, single, etc.