#Need a mentor which can help me decide among resources.

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blissful heath
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I'm an OCD case. The subject mentioned was the main motivation behind me joining this server. I'm stuck in analysis paralysis loop and often get paralyzed from taking one step forward. I first enrolled back in 2020 but to certain circumstances left. Now I'm virtually enrolled at some other university. I often try to fill up the knowledge gap the university leaves since the university doesn't work like traditional campuses providing practical environment. For this I joined well-recognized OSSU but now doubt if it will help me achieve what I want. I started this resource hunt since after I left previous uni but now it's getting out of control. I don't know how to deal with this problem of choosing between multiple helping material (books, dozens of github repos, multiple self study CS tracks and moocs) at each step. Days are passing like this where I get stuck for hours in this paralysis loop without doing much. I believe that if I found out someone who can really help me with this will greatly reduce my tension. My progress for now is only upto familiarity with basic programming contructs, OOP, Data structures implementations and being able to code text based tic tace toe or connect 4. Additionally I was also able to complete How to Code simple data and Complex Data by Gregor and its problem bank. But right now uncertain how to move forward and avoid cognitive load.

full shore
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You don't really need to choose the resources, but really to overcome the OCD. You always need to continually learn, as in you will always gradually improve your bases as needed to reach higher. If you try to learn the bases perfectly right away, you won't ever leave the ground.
I'd suggest, it doesn't matter much which resource you use, just stick to a single one at time, if your problem is cognitive load. Every resource is going to cover the same basic things and go deeper into a few random topics, you need to learn the basics, scouring the other resources for more random topics is really inefficient.

blissful heath
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Here?

full shore
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yes

winged lance
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I got through my ocd by finding some project i really wanted to do. My want of moving that project forward was greater than my ocd of doing it perfectly, or learning perfectly for that matter.

You have to stop this ocd. Thoughts and habits in our head are like rivers. The more u let them flow, and feed them, the more they carve themselves out into ur mind. The less, the less. And eventually, they’re gone. Even the canyons they carve get filled up eventually.

This is really hard. Ask anyone with an addiction.

There’s multiple ways to solve this problem. First is finding something and clinging hard to it with passion. Second is dealing with the root of the problem. And there’s other methods as well.

Other methods is to reward yourself when you ignore the ocd. Always try to catch urself in ocd or about to. Even outside of studying. To solve the root of the issue is to fix the underlying trait that affects other parts of ur life as well. Removing ocd in other parts of ur life to most likely remove this one.