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The Advice You Need To Escape “Tutorial Hell”

December 1st, 2020

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TL;DR You need to get off tutorials and start building something on your own!

I believe that everybody who’s reading this has followed or seen a tutorial to do something. When you are doing so, be careful of “Tutorial Hell”.

What the hell is “Tutorial Hell” you asked?

It is a stage where a beginner tends to depend on tutorials to do things, even simple tasks. So, they will chain a tutorial to another tutorial whenever they want to do something.

Is it bad?

Umm, not really. But, if you’re in this “Tutorial Hell”, you’ll never make something magnificent or sellable stuff, because all you do is copying other people’s work.

In this era, where you can basically obtain any kinds of information you want. Absolutely, you can find tutorials for everything.

Even, you can find tutorials for breathing!
Absurd? Yes.
Bad? No.

It just what it is now, people put every kind of information on the internet.

Then, why we fell into “Tutorial Hell”?

Because we feel overwhelmed to do something that is unknown to us.
By following a tutorial, we get this feeling of comfort in mind that we will accomplish something, and a tutorial is risk-free.

What I meant by risk-free is you don’t have to go through stress to fix stuff.
It’s all there for you to follow.

Also, when we finished a tutorial, we get a sense of progression. But in the end, if you only informed how to do something, but never get your hands dirty, how the hell are you gonna master a skill?

When talking about “Tutorial Hell”, we can’t forget “Impostor Syndrome”, a syndrome that makes you doubt your own skills. So, people loop on tutorials until they feel “ready”.

Now, what to do then?

It may sound obvious, but you need to get off tutorials and start building your own thing.

You’ll encounter all kinds of problems that didn’t occur when you’re following a tutorial. In that way, you’ll understand better about that specific topic.

Don’t doubt your own skill. How are people gonna trust you even yourself doubt your own skills?

It’s okay to make mistakes, my friend.

P.S I’m not totally out of this “Tutorial Hell” thingy, but I’m trying to do my own stuff too. Have a good day.