Finally it clicked for me

I was trying to get into LC since November on weekends to skill up and because I’ve never really had to it in my career. I bought Neetcode subscription and started with his general algo and ds course. Since to each lesson there are LC questions attached I also was doing them and mostly I was struggling hard, and really was in anxious state every time I was looking at the question and had a blank page in my mind, apart from easy ones and few mediums which I managed to do on my own. Usually I had to use ChatGPT or just see the NC video to see what the solution is.

Today, however while doing Graphs lesson something changed and actually my thinking is becoming more structured. I am starting to see patterns and stopped rushing into coding but abstract my way out of the problem in my mind and spot edge cases before writing anything.

Feels good!