Embrace The Pain

A defining characteristic of mediocre software engineers is that they run away from problems in their code and avoid confronting hard problems in general. This lesson will teach you:

• Why (and how) you should embrace the pain if you truly want to write better code as a software engineer
• The process to follow to go from writing bad code to good code
• What it means to actually learn system design
• How to level up your technical understanding with an in-depth example from Alex's past about how he truly mastered a deep Android concept and applied that mastery to learn iOS development almost instantly