I think you just need a project to motivate you to go deeper into the 
language. Take on a project that you've been wanting to work on for some 
time and write it in Clojure.

On Saturday, August 20, 2016 at 11:59:42 PM UTC-4, chia kang ren wrote:
>
> I started programming with Racket 2 years ago and i decided i want to use 
> a Lisp with more libraries at my disposal. So i have made some headway into 
> Clojure and am familiar with core functions like map, reduce, filter, loop, 
> for, doseq, some, every?, apply. I make use of macros like ->, ->>, .. 
>  sometimes. I'm somewhat familiar with destructuring and the clojure data 
> structures.
>
> I have never seen the need to learn transients, macros, protocols, 
> transducers, multimethods, have struggled with string and file I/O 
> operations on the rare occasions i need to use them. I have a vague idea of 
> things like "parallelism", "concurrency", probably because the applications 
> i build never have had a need of such things. I have a vague idea of how 
> expensive calls to this or that function would be.
>
> Most of my explorations have been with Clojurescript using Om or solving 
> puzzles, so i have been limited to mostly small scripts, or projects that 
> never go beyond a few files.
>
> I would like to step up my game. I like working in Clojure enough and i 
> think i have had enough of scripts, i want to write Clojure *programs.* I 
> want to understand how to make the most of this language, and I would 
> appreciate very much anecdotes/guidance from the community on how to do so 
>

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