How to Avoid Burnout, Improve Your Confidence and Keep Coding Fun, with Scrimba Student Sylvia

<p><strong>🎙 About the episode</strong></p><p><br><strong>Meet Sylvialynn Favello 🇺🇸! </strong>Sylvia got exposed to coding accidentally: by watching online courses for fun after she took a break from work and studying so that she could have surgery. Today, she works at Docker! She will teach us how to stay on track even when our brains don't want to.</p><p>In this episode, Sylvia will give us her insights on how to recognize you're heading towards burnout, how to keep learning fun, and how to remain motivated. She also talks about working on her self-confidence and public speaking by participating in communities and Twitter spaces (the latter is also how she met her hiring manager!), as well as how she found a way to enjoy the learning process for what it is. Spoiler alert: you'll get many unconventional study tips, but they might work for you!</p><p>Alex and Sylvia also discuss programming with ADHD, why being a developer is rewarding, and how you can turn perceived failures into learning experiences.   </p><p><strong>🔗 Connect with Sylvia</strong></p><ul> <li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvialynn-7566a4219/">👩‍💼 Linkedin</a></li> <li><a href="https://hashnode.com/@EngineeringLynn">🌐  Hashnode</a></li> <li><a href="https://github.com/sfavello/">👩‍🚀 GitHub</a></li> <li><a href="https://engineeringlynn.com">🌐  Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/EngineeringLynn">🐦 Twitter</a></li> </ul><p>⏰ <strong>Timestamps</strong></p><ul> <li>How Sylvia started learning to code because she was bored and wanted to learn... anything (01:48)</li> <li>Alex met Sylvia a year ago when she was joining Twitter spaces to work on her self-confidence and public speaking. Here's how it went down! (03:59)</li> <li>Why you should try different things until you find something that sticks (05:12)</li> <li>How Sylvia's dream about studying at Harvard turned into a passion for coding (05:53)</li> <li>How Alex got exposed to coding by watching videos from Stanford, and Sylvia's unconventional learning practices