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The will to do the drill will bring the willingness to execute.

I am not a painter but I followed a pure drill approach to teach html/css/javascript to 12 of my operations/monitoring team members (11 males 1 female, aged 24-27) who lost their job during start of Covid.

None of them had any background in programming or engineering, 3 of them dropped out after two weeks.

All those who went through the drill got jobs as developers. 7 as react developers, 1 test automation and 1 script developer.

All I did was ensure the drill and motivate them not to give up. They were all from very poor families so the motivation part was easy - hope of a better life at the end of drill.

The mantra is, don’t fool yourself, type it, clock the hours and don’t miss the meeting.



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