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Build Your Passion

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Kevin Naughton Jr.
Oct 11, 2024
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For the longest time, I thought that people discovered their passion by happenstance or by trying new things. I’ve since discovered that developing a passion for something is a long road that takes consistent effort — at least this was the story for me with programming.

I was terrible at coding when I first started learning, but for some reason I stuck w…

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