The Long Rest I Needed: Why I Stopped Chasing “Advanced” Topics
For a long time, I treated learning like an endless dungeon crawl. No rests. No pauses. Just door after door, room after room, always pushing forward. If something was labeled advanced, I assumed that’s where I should be heading next. Anything else felt like backtracking – or worse, like I was wasting time. So I skipped ahead. Advanced JavaScript. Advanced frameworks. Advanced patterns. If the topic sounded difficult, prestigious, or…