--- title: Making a Good Engineer a Great One: Training Your Skills... description: Learn how to navigate the three phases of learning new skills, from the adjustment phase to the intuition-building phase and the stagnation phase. Adopting a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-good-engineer-a-great-one-training-your-skills-and-training-your-mindset-a89vsu4zx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Making a Good Engineer a Great One: Training Your Skills and Training Your Mindset | daily.dev og:description: Learn how to navigate the three phases of learning new skills, from the adjustment phase to the intuition-building phase and the stagnation phase. Adopting a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-good-engineer-a-great-one-training-your-skills-and-training-your-mindset-a89vsu4zx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/a89VsU4Zx.png og:image:alt: Making a Good Engineer a Great One: Training Your Skills and Training Your Mindset og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Making a Good Engineer a Great One: Training Your Skills and Training Your Mindset **[Hacker Noon](https://daily.dev/sources/hackernoon)** · 1 min read · 34 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary Learn how to navigate the three phases of learning new skills, from the adjustment phase to the intuition-building phase and the stagnation phase. Adopting a growth mindset can help with the learning process. Remember to seek feedback and avoid overconfidence. Consider your professional goals when faced with the decision to take on new responsibilities. The Dreyfus model is a helpful framework for understanding skill acquisition. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@erikpillon** · 2 upvotes > Really nice insight! I was expecting a Dunning-Kruger like curve, instead I was positively surprised to see a completely different curve where we even acknowledge that the beginning of a new position means a small setback wrt our previous productivity, while gaining in the long term the compound interest of this new skills --- Tags: [#career](https://daily.dev/tags/career), [#leadership](https://daily.dev/tags/leadership), [#productivity](https://daily.dev/tags/productivity) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-good-engineer-a-great-one-training-your-skills-and-training-your-mindset-a89vsu4zx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Making a Good Engineer a Great One: Training Your Skills and Training Your Mindset","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-good-engineer-a-great-one-training-your-skills-and-training-your-mindset-a89vsu4zx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/making-a-good-engineer-a-great-one-training-your-skills-and-training-your-mindset-a89vsu4zx"},"datePublished":"2023-10-26T22:14:54.908Z","dateModified":"2024-01-27T02:15:54.137Z","description":"Learn how to navigate the three phases of learning new skills, from the adjustment phase to the intuition-building phase and the stagnation phase. 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