I'm an aspiring Java programmer. It's been a year since I became serious in self-studying. I took a Java course from udemy by Tim buchalka. I have a part time job and lots of free time to study. But most of the time I rest in long hours due to stress in studying. So far, I learnt the basics, OOP concepts, a "little" bit of IO, javafx, maven, collection, and threads. It's been a year but I only manage to write a simple time calculator that will add multiple input of time using Javafx. I feel like I'm slow compare to other people. I easily forget stuff too. What am I doing wrong? Is there any way to learn fast and reduce information overload aside from meditation, napping, exercise... you know not the typical advice you get from internet?

Here's my routine:

I will study in 3 days for 4 hours using pomodoro technique and then the next day, nothing seems to come into my mind no matter what kind of rest I do. My head hurts and it will take me 2 or 3 days to completely feel mentally rested.

Now I look up in Job description and they demand so many skills even for a Junior position such as Java, JSP and servlets, Javascript, Maven, J2EE, Spring and so many things which is overwhelming. Imagine, I only learn Java in a year and still not perfecting it.

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About me:

- Programming makes me question my intelligence. I thought I wasn't that stupid when I managed to win a 2 digit lottery after carefully "analyzing" the pattern in numbers.

- I easily forget stuff.

- Can't even finish the entire videos coz it's confusing to my brain.

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What's your studying routine and how often do you get stress? Please please help me or at least give me some proper advice to study that you just don't get in the internet.