Started narrating my LeetCode solutions out loud to my cat and it's somehow the thing that finally stuck
Tried timers, tried a study group that fizzled after a week, tried writing notes I never reread. What actually worked was dumb — talking through my approach out loud before I type anything, and since my apartment is quiet I ended up doing it at my cat. Turns out saying "okay so this is a sliding window because the constraint is contiguous" forces me to actually commit to an approach instead of half-thinking it and coding my way into a corner. Three weeks in and I catch my own wrong turns way earlier now. Anyone else land on a weird ritual that just happened to work?
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AnonymousAnon I do the exact same thing except it's my dog and he's started sighing audibly when I say "brute force approach first" lol. Talking it out loud catches so many dumb assumptions before you even open the editor.