Automate or Get Automated: How I Changed My Life Learning to Automate (Instead of Coding)

Don’t just learn to code! Learn to automate your life, before your job gets automated.

Every job has some repetitive tasks that nobody wants to do and could be easily automated. Lately, not only tasks but even jobs are being automated by powerful AI. This is why, a few years ago, I learned to automate simple tasks without having any previous knowledge of coding.

Probably the best way to learn a programming language is by automating stuff. Whenever we learn something new, we need that “sense of achievement” that keeps us going no matter how challenging a new subject is.

You can feel this sense of achievement when playing your first song after spending hours learning how to play an instrument or when having a conversation in a foreign language after taking many language lessons.

Automation can provide that feeling when learning to code. However, we don’t need to spend so many hours learning to code to automate a task.

This is what helped me get started with a programming language like Python. I’d learn the basics and then try to automate many repetitive and boring tasks at work.

But I didn’t stop there! I automated any time-consuming task I had at home. This is how I changed my life — I let the machine take care of tasks that took my priceless time, so I could focus on what matters most.

Here are some aspects of my life that I automated with Python. All of them are very basic and would help you get started with automation.