 what's up team it is your biggest fan the real castadero and today we are going to talk about whether or not you can learn to code in that in an hour a day and I was watching the video in the the guy he's a tech CEO or so he says and he said no you can't learn the code in an hour a day and I'm here to tell you yes you can it just depends on how long you want to take to learn the code and your understanding of what learning to code actually means if you if you want to build a company like let's take let's take Instagram as it is right now today if you want to build Instagram as it is right now today and I'm not just talking about the app I'm talking about the whole thing that is a very complex thing and one person it would take them a very long time to build it so that's one aspect of it another aspect of it is it would take somebody who has absolutely no knowledge of of computer science and software development and when I when I use the term computer science I'm not talking about like this this this complex concept like something that you have to go off to to a four-year school and comprehend computer science is very simple it is just the same as humans human science universal science you already have a very good understanding of computer science but it doesn't benefit anybody who's going to make money from teaching you about computer science to give it to you straight and I don't even know if they can all of computer science is based on methodologies methodologies processes and mathematics that's it so to be a hardcore computer scientist like the kind that right operating systems and design motherboards you need to know mathematics and some people are like well I don't I don't want to I don't want to learn math and they think that that math is a prerequisite to to becoming a software engineer and it's not now if you want to become a highly paid software engineer at a big company then yes those are skills you need to have because a big company isn't going to hire you and pay you you know a couple hundred thousand dollars a year to write basic HTML CSS and JavaScript they need people who can work with data at scale who can work with millions of users who can scale out systems and and fix edge cases and optimize programs for speed and that's where the complex stuff comes in algorithms and algorithmic study and all this stuff but if you want to be able to build your own application like what Facebook was when Facebook when Mark Zuckerberg first built it in his dorm room the PHP application he built that was Facebook yes if you if you set your if you if you come up with the plan and you keep a schedule you can get more done in an hour a day than somebody who's studying eight hours a day because most people don't study they you can you can have more confidence just by studying an hour a day than somebody who studies eight hours a day it depends on how you spend that time if you turn off your phone and you have a plan this is what I'm gonna learn today this is gonna what I'm gonna learn tomorrow this is what I'm you map out everything that you need to learn in order to build the thing that you want to build or everything you need to learn in order to get the job you want to learn and you do it every day by the end of X amount of days you'll probably be there but you can't be as you have to show up every day preferably at the same time and you have to turn off all distractions and when you start you have to know exactly where you're gonna start so when we say an hour a day of study we're not talking about you know I'm gonna I'm gonna block out you know three o'clock to four o'clock in the afternoon and I'm gonna come to my desk at three o'clock and I'm gonna organize all my shit and and at three twenty I'll start because you didn't get it you didn't get a whole hour you wasted 20 minutes organizing stuff so you have to plan for that when you sit down you have to know exactly what it is you're gonna do and then you just do it and you turn off all distractions anybody anybody or anything that can distract you you block them out if you need to go out into the woods to be all alone by yourself with nature then that's that's what you do that is gonna be the best way to learn but you but again you can't say hey I'm gonna do this hour a day from three to four p.m. and you get in your car and you drive out to the four you get in your car at three and you drive out to the forest and it takes you half an hour because you're only gonna get half an hour you have to be extremely organized team and it and I'm not saying it's easy some we want the easy route we that's that's that's the way but but nothing worth doing nothing worth having is easy and we listen to each other spew this nonsense to one another we listened the to the media to the news to all this stuff right that the like just for some reason we believe that just by being born here in America that we are entitled to something here we're not entitled to anything you're not entitled to be rich you're not entitled to a job you're not entitled to respect not entitled to anything there's no reason why anybody should give you anything just because you're you you you have to go out there and you have to get it and is if it were if it was easy everybody would just do it but it's not easy it's hard when you want to become a different person when you want to transform yourself and gain a new skill set you have to put some things aside you have to make some sort of sacrifice so you you you have to ask yourself what am I gonna give up and it's it's true like I have to give up at least an hour a day and it doesn't even have to be an hour it could be it could be half an hour but it has to be a focused half an hour it can't be you can't be working and then listening to music and looking at your phone and doing all this other garbage that people do you have to be in the zone team and you can get more done in that half an hour again then some people get done all day because you're organized you're focused you have a mission you have a plan you know where you're going to start and where you're going to stop every day and another thing you have to do is is you have to be able to adjust so if you give yourself just an hour a day and you sit down and you're working on some complex problem not and not even a complex problem a complex concept and by the end of that hour you don't understand it then you have to make a determination am I going to go for another hour and figure this out or am I going to wrap this up for today and tomorrow I'm going to come back to this same thing and I'm going to study it until I understand it what most people do is they'll go through something and they'll go well you know I think I kind of understand this they think they have an understanding and they move on to the next thing but they don't really have an understanding if you go to them and you say hey explain this to me as simply as you possibly can they would have a very tough time doing it because they don't understand it and so the goal is to to have a deep understanding of the stuff that you are learning and one way to develop that deep understanding is to make that concept that you are that you are learning the center of your attention for whatever time frame that you are learning the concept team that is how you get good and that is how you can study an hour a day don't listen to this crap like you got you got a you got a you got to spend all this time you got to spend all this money you got to go to boot camps you got to buy all these books you got to do all these you don't have to do any of that stuff you have to do none of that stuff team figure out what you want to build figure out what you want to do figure out who you want to be how you want to live figure that stuff out write it all down and then ask the question what is the first thing that I need to do if I want to build websites what's the first process in building a website you can just go to Google what is the first process in building a website or you could go to Google and say what's the entire process what is a what is a website development process and once you have the process the process will tell you all the different steps and then you can say okay the first thing I need to do is write out all of the copy that's gonna be on the page do I need to learn copywriting you have to ask yourself that question do I need to learn copywriting at what cost what's the benefit of this and maybe you determine like I'm not gonna be a copywriter so I don't need to do copywriting I'll just I'll just use Lorm Ipsum or filler text when I build these sites I'm focused on the user interface design or the user experience or the back end logic and now you know team and and if you have any questions you just go out to the internet and ask you can come join the code 365 startup lab and ask there you can go out to to Reddit and you can ask their team there's a bunch of different things you can do but the first thing you have to do is you have to get specific about what it is you want to do you have to come up with a plan and then you have to set aside a block of time every day and that whole block of time has to be dedicated to learning that specific thing if you know it's gonna take you an hour to get ready then you need to devote an hour and a half or you just need to devote half an hour but you need to understand that needs to be the most focused whatever amount of time you spend it needs to be the most focused amount of time that you spend if you're gonna go to work for eight hours go to work for eight hours turn off everything eliminate all distractions it just work for eight hours focus hardcore work plan your breaks plan everything everything planned out and you follow it to the team that's how the military is able to train soldiers so well everything is planned out alright team that is it I'll see you guys I'll see you guys in the next one