WEBVTT 0 00:00.930 --> 00:01.730 Hey. 1 00:01.790 --> 00:04.710 Well done for completing yet another module. 2 00:04.710 --> 00:06.180 This is really exciting. 3 00:06.180 --> 00:08.940 You're getting really into the course now. 4 00:08.940 --> 00:13.820 Now I want to share with you one of my ways for building a good habit. 5 00:13.860 --> 00:20.860 Because if we think about it learning to code, it requires daily, almost constant effort, right? 6 00:20.970 --> 00:28.320 Ideally if you could spend 100 days and you spent one hour a day learning to code or coding something 7 00:28.500 --> 00:35.340 of your own, then you're going to become so much better than if you just, you know, did it one weekend and then forgot 8 00:35.340 --> 00:35.740 about it, 9 00:35.760 --> 00:36.500 right? 10 00:36.570 --> 00:43.830 So the difference between these two scenarios is if you're able to build a habit, and once we have a 11 00:43.830 --> 00:46.730 habit, you almost don't have to think about it anymore, 12 00:46.760 --> 00:47.160 right? 13 00:47.190 --> 00:52.180 You don't think about in the morning like do I want to brush my teeth or not. 14 00:52.380 --> 00:53.510 I don't know. 15 00:53.600 --> 00:58.860 Is it one of those days where I brush or not? You don't think about that because it's a habit. 16 00:58.890 --> 01:00.810 You just wake up, and you just do it. 17 01:01.260 --> 01:06.690 So how can you make coding, or learning to code, a habit? 18 01:06.690 --> 01:15.270 One of the things that really helps me is to mark a line in my calendar, and I think this 19 01:15.270 --> 01:20.510 is actually something that came from Jerry Seinfeld, like the comedian dude, where he said that every 20 01:20.510 --> 01:30.270 day he writes a new joke, he puts a line through, you know, his calendar, and, by continuing that line, at some point 21 01:30.900 --> 01:36.720 you're not going to want to break the chain, because it's like, “Man, I've done like a 10 day streak. 22 01:36.720 --> 01:39.220 How hard is it just to do one more day?” 23 01:39.640 --> 01:46.740 And I don't know if it's because I'm kind of OCD like I just like seeing things like completed. 24 01:46.980 --> 01:53.220 I sometimes just write to do's in my to do list that I've already done which I haven't written in my 25 01:53.220 --> 01:56.190 list but just to be able to tick it off. 26 01:56.190 --> 01:58.420 Yeah yeah let me know if you can relate. 27 01:58.440 --> 02:00.120 But if you even if you can't. 28 02:01.260 --> 02:12.660 Most people actually benefit from continuing a streak and by about 30 days or 40 days that thing that 29 02:12.660 --> 02:18.680 you have to constantly think about, like, “Do I have time today to code? 30 02:19.020 --> 02:26.150 Do I want to do it?” That kind of just becomes a habit and you just know, “Oh, this is the time where I get 31 02:26.300 --> 02:32.900 sat down and I start coding.” And it doesn't actually take that much motivation anymore. So try and give 32 02:32.900 --> 02:35.750 this a go and see if that helps you. 33 02:35.750 --> 02:39.050 But the most important thing is to just keep going. 34 02:39.080 --> 02:44.720 I keep saying it but at the end of the day if you show up if you do the work then you're gonna get the 35 02:44.720 --> 02:45.290 results. 36 02:45.650 --> 02:47.950 So I'm here cheering for you. 37 02:48.050 --> 02:49.480 I'm sure other people are. 38 02:49.730 --> 02:52.090 I think you're doing great and you're going to do even better.