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Discussion on: Are you a "fast learner"?

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Will Soares

I consider myself a "fast learner" and I believe that for me this is a good and a bad thing to have as a skill. The good thing is that, as I work in an agency-like company, I keep moving from project to project and end up working with lots of tools, architectures, and standards. I am able to get used to a new stack really quick. However, I feel like when I get used to some tool or language and feel comfortable with that, especially when that occurs quickly, I stop looking to improve my skills on that, which is somehow a dangerous behavior. I end up with limited knowledge on a big myriad of tools and no deep understanding on any of them.

Thinking about that now, I'm not sure whether that behavior is really a consequence of me being a "fast learner" or not. I know it is somehow related but I don't know to what extent.