The subtle art of change
Lately, I started my writing series about Taking care of myself. I think I started to become more of a writer, as you can see I am promising to write about it for a bit of time now.
I won't write about the diet, but a pattern of change that helped me a lot in many areas, I wanted to be better at. The subtle change, the kind of change that you don't want because it is too small, and never consider a success either.
The prime example for this kind of change is my Linux learning journey. I always liked the mastery of famous Linux youtubers and I felt like I would love to have the same kind of mastery, so I installed Arch and tried to go into tutorials of how to rice it for hours and hours. Due to my lack of experience my system lacked the basic functionality like turning up/down the volume and I was basically forced to live with not functioning system.
My experience with Vim was the exact same, I wanted to set everything up once and start moving like a ninja. Spoiler alert, I had to go back to VScode.
So what worked?
This way of change I will call "The boring gradual change", this kind of change when you install Nvim with a pre configruation and every couple of days/weeks learn about just one new concept or add a new configuration while getting used to the new things. "This is a very basic idea" you might say that, well, it is a basic idea, I have to remind myself of everyday. Today I might get a break through in my work or study and I believe and hope for that, but in the same time, I have to take the steps that I can. stopping eating snacks after dinner doesn't seem like a big plan to get in shape, walking for 10 minutes a day won't get you in shape, but these small steps is what allows you to take the big steps later. Think about as the needed warm-up even that it can take very long.
Get used not to be perfect and to do the small obvious stuff. just try the boring gradual change.
May Allah protect you