Thread by @BandaWorks

- Why are you doing #frontend projects?
- To practice #webdev
- Okay, why do you practice web dev?
- To land a dev position in a #tech company or startup
- Why do you need to land a dev position?
- I see. I want to secure my family's future.

🧵to remind you of the reasons:

One day, everyone who is going through the path of becoming #developer, experience this unsureness.

We feel unmotivated, tired, and somehow #anxious.

We may feel afraid of a lot of requirements out there to get a job.

We may have trouble in our personal life.

Honestly, there may be a lot of reasons for us to experience the decline.

There are many recommendations people give in that case:
- Take a break for a few days
- Change the location: e.g. get from home to a coffee shop (like Starbucks) and practice there
- Find a coding partner

I'm not gonna argue: those are all working solutions! Use what's suitable - they all proved to be helpful.

What I want to add to them is a different kind of advice.

It's more of a mental exercise that is continuously helping me for more than half of the decade.

I use this statement as the guideline for the exercise: On the darkest day, search for the actual reasons, why you started.

It's important to understand that when you start asking yourself questions usually the first answers are very shallow.

But the more you ask - the better the answers.

So to find the actual answer use the rule of "5 whys": ask and answer 5 whys until you reach the actual reason.

I picked this approach from the "Lean Startup" book by Eric Ries, while he learned it, as I recall, from the Toyota (car manufacturer).

I simply applied to the human part of the engineering: to myself.

So whenever I get to the decline in any endeavor: learning a new development area, working on a complex project at work, or even struggling with some personal matter — I always remind myself of the reasons why I started.

Try it and maybe the next time you'll find yourself there, you'll remember this small tweet.

Try this technique at such a time and it will help you to recharge your battery and give you the strength to continue moving forward 🏃