Personal Tutor/Coach
When I was a full-time developer, I always had my code reviewed by a peer who can give me their perspective on the code. Subsequently, I always learned something new. Peer review is extremely valuable for debugging since I could never find the misspelling and other stupid errors because my eyes would always lie.
This is the reason why I have a tutor/coach who I meet on a regular basis. He’s on a retainer (it always works best for both parties, trust me) and provides me with extremely valuable lessons. I’ve asked him to give me a tutorials on things I already knew to see how he’d approach it. Considering what I get out of the each session, the cost is not even a factor at this point.
If you think about it, even the professional athletes on top of their game have tutor/coach. Just take a look at Tiger Woods. He has a swing coach even though he’s the most dominant golfer in the World. He did have a short period of not having one after leaving Butch Harmon, but now he’s back to having one.
My recommendation is to get a mentor/tutor/coach as soon as possible. You won’t believe the results.
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