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Reverse the Curse of “Tutorial Trap”

Stop binge watching online courses and tutorial if you want to learn.

Sundas Khalid
3 min readJul 18, 2020
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In today’s world of remote learning where countless online courses, tutorials ands blogs are available on the internet for FREE, it’s easy to fall into tutorial trap.

The tutorial trap is a trap where we take tutorials after tutorials — leading to belief of learning something new — then surprises us with the state of confusion when it’s time to apply the knowledge

What leads to tutorial trap?

A strong desire to learn fast combined with abundance of free, accessible resources can lead to tutorial trap.

learning new things can be addictive

Learning new things can be enjoyable — it can also be addictive. We are tempted to continuously learn and move onto the next thing whether that is an online course or tutorial.

binge watching tutorials is a thing.

This is when we fall into a tutorial trap where we take tutorials after tutorials — binge watch tutorials — without applying the knowledge. This is a problem because it does not prepare you for the real-world.

online tutorials are simplified…

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Sundas Khalid
Sundas Khalid

Written by Sundas Khalid

I write about data science, diversity & lifestyle | currently at Google | more learning content at sundaskhalid.com

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