🥊 Mentorship Minute: Getting Un Stuck

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I have been working on a code project for the past three weeks using flutter and dart to make an android app that leverages machine learning. The experience has been a challenge!

The issue I was having for the last 40 hours was integrating firebase with the flutter. I spent hours watching videos, reading documentation, starting and restarting projects probably 50 times. I couldn't get the damn to thing to work! There was a handful of times I felt like giving up, but I didn't give up.

Today I finally broke through. I began to reflect on how persistence played a massive role in my ability to get what I want in life.

At the moment, things may seem like there is not anything good going on, but persistence pays. Often when we want to quit, we are so close to winning. I wonder how I would mentally be if I had accepted defeat when the solution was just a few hard pushes away.

I wanted to share this story with you because I am sure you have had moments like this, too, or you may find one on the horizon.

The lesson here is to stick it out. As Marie Forleo states, "Everything is figure outable." Often we need to be creative with our problem-solving techniques. The rewards at the end of the persistence tunnel are waiting for us. The funny part is as soon as we get stuck and then unstuck, we look back and see it was just a speed bump preparing us for the next barrier we face at a later date. Tis is the life of a programmer.

Have you experienced something like this? Did sticking it out eventually pay off or not?

Ben McNeill 💚https://profitablepython.fm👽

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