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How shame derails the learning process

I have been trying to learn this programming language for a year but every time I sit down to practice I feel stupid and incompetent and quit after ten minutes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Self-judgment creates emotional static that interferes with the receptive state necessary for skill acquisition.

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