Learning How to Learn as a Professional Programmer

Lars von Trier: Learning how to learn is the one and only skill that you need to focus on cultivating as a professional programmer. "The more I learn, the more advanced I become in my career, the more responsibilities that I take on professionally, the harder my job has become," he says. LZ: You can't teach someone everything they need to know to be a professional programmer in three months. So what you can do is teach them how to be okay with being really uncomfortable and confused.