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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
How Do People Balance So Many Paradigms At The Same Time?

I'm a recent graduate and I'm trying to balance C++, MySQL, React, JS, PHP, Front end web design all at the same time. And by balance I mean, become proficient at.

I honestly have no idea how people do this. It's like playing 10 different musical instruments a day and you're switching instruments every hour. And we know nobody does that. People just stick to 1 instrument. Especially when there's so much depth within each of those paradigms.

I feel like I cannot become a master in any of those if I'm doing all of those at the same time. The best I can manage is basic level understanding and can't go that deep.

But so many people do it and its considered the bare minimum to become a proficient in at least 4-5 paradigms. How?
gpt
Software engineering is not about "writing code", it's about "solving problems", and while a musician doesn't switch between many instruments (though some do), a carpenter would be pretty terrible if all he could do was swing a hammer.

Your work product is not the code you write, but the problem you've solved.  A musician's work product is the music itself, played or written.