# The Little Schemer, Chapter 8 **URL:** \ **Category:** Friendly\ **Tags:** learning, coding\ **Created:** [May 18, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/the-little-schemer-chapter-8/120 "2021-05-18T23:10:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 4
**Author:** ![JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/justinceo/32/9_2.png) [@JustinCEO](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/JustinCEO)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 12:03am UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/the-little-schemer-chapter-8/120/4 "2021-05-19T00:03:13Z")
> [@AnneB](#): > > When Justin is confused about something, he stays calm, whereas I sometimes start to feel frustrated. He has confidence that he can make progress in figuring the thing out. I sometimes don’t think I can make any progress–I either get it after reading it through a few times or I will never get it. I don’t want to think that way. The mindfulness meditation stuff can help with getting upset overall. There’s also some generic stuff that applies to coding too. Like I think some generic issues people have when learning things are: 1. Not having a reasonable expectation regarding the amount of work that can be expected (and feeling dumb when they have to do a lot of work). 2. Not knowing how to break a problem down into small components. 3. Underestimating the extent to which a large problem can be approached in small chunks, by e.g. working on small portions of it, writing analyses of what you do know, working on related skills, and so on. But anyways this is all stuff that’s solvable. FWIW i still get upset sometimes. Though not for very long, at least about this stuff. I mentioned an example here that was very recent: > [@Justin Does SICP](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/justin-does-sicp/96/10): > > That actually helps make clear part of the reason I like the blogging format rather than trying to have a bunch of answers in a more organized/polished presentation - cuz I treat the blogging format more like a journal of my thoughts as they are happening and find it easy to talk about misconceptions or errors that come out in that context. It’s not supposed to be like a final polished thing. When I realized I made an error today, initially I got kind of upset about it, but then I thought abou… --- _[View the full topic](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/the-little-schemer-chapter-8/120)._