Learning by Doing

I think it's often fine to pick up only a shallow understanding on your first time. Go away, try to use what you've learned, make all the silly beginner mistakes. Then, when you come back to the learning material again, you'll find it much easier to understand it properly.

I know it's easy to say, but try to go deep man, and break those prior learnings..

i cant claim fantastic success, but I tend to flip this around. rather than say ' i want to learn to do x', i just start trying to do x and figure it out. obviously thats not very effective.but when I do start to read the canon, everything makes so much more sense. pleased at having extracted some useful hints I go back to screwing everything up, but a little better this time..and repeat.that means that i've wasted alot of time doing things the wrong way, but after that*, in

The author may not have the necessary familiarity with it. Experience is gained via mistakes too.

Learning requires a lots of false starts, traps, etc. Once one has mastered, he/she can provide an intuitive explanation (a path through the wild forest that learning is).

I find these stories strange. If it would be like that, wouldn‘t you learn from an expert friend just as fast? My experience is that for anything worth learning it takes a long time of thinking about it from various angles.

Sticking with something long enough to learn the difference between how it seems it should work & how it actually works.

I really like this idea of learning things the "hard" way, of doing something and then figuring out why without a lot of handholding. I think it works for beginners, but it also works equally well for experts -- for instance if I'm learning a new language I'd rather just do something and figure out why it's acting in the way it is, rather than read through a chapter explaining it.

Dive in head first. Don't understand the subject at all. Get frustrated. Google and jump to answers found. Frustrated because the answer found was too old. Feel like I'm not getting anywhere. Finally make some progress. Discover familiar patterns. More progress. End up being pretty good at it.Still feel it all took to long because everything changed and now you need to learn something new.

When learning something new, it's usually best not to fight against the stream. After you understand it well, then your efforts to bring it into your old way of doing things will be more fruitful.