Deliberately avoid all instruction. Use your intution, make it up as you go along.

I can’t say that I necessarily recommend this particular brand of insanity to just anyone, but it worked for me.

…I think.

If you’re talking about Youtube video tutorials, an effective trick is to press the ‘3’ key when the video starts. That will take you 30% into the runtime. You skip all the ‘hey guys’ and ‘this is why I made this video’ fluff and get strait to the information. It’s spooky how well this works.

In my experience they’re only good when you find those that teach you exactly what you’re trying to do, otherwise it’s stuff you have no use for.

Better avoid them unless you happen to find one about the specific task you are stuck at and you need a more practical example.

Figure out what you actually want to do with your skill.

A very easy goal to begin with.

Eg you want to learn how to program? Okay you will make a calculator app.

Next step make a gui.

Next make it recognize your handwriting and parse the equation you write by hand.

Watch tutorials until you think you know how to do it and cludge together something.

Watch the tutorials about avoiding tutorial hell.

I got in touch with very kind and able teachers. Without them, I’d be nothing these days when it comes to my hobbies (and my profession).

My rule of learning is:

I see and I forget. I hear and I remember. I do and I understand

The best way to learn how to do something is by doing it

Which honestly sounds like an oxymoron, but for instance, if you’re wanting to learn electronics, the best way to learn electronics is to get a kit and assemble some electronics and learn about the parts as you’re assembling them.

Or circuit design, you get a circuit sim software and design some circuits. Follow some schematics online.

Or, if you want to be a web developer, you spin up a server and start developing websites.

Don’t follow the tutorial from start to finish. Pay attention (real attention) until you learn enough things to be able to goof around on your own. Then switch over to goofing around.

Stuck? Bored? Is what you learned so far not getting you where you want to go?

Resume the tutorial for a bit. Learn a couple new things. Then goof off with those new things.

Go back and forth.

This is basically how education works. Theory then application, then refinement.

Don’t try to become an expert by sitting through the entire tutorial. That’s boring.

Don’t be afraid to break things

Just try making something you want. Only look up a tutorial when you encounter things you don’t know.

i don’t do tutorials. they are generally useless.

i mostly work from documentation, then build my own documentation based on my use-cases to share with the rest of my team.

Id love to know

Try not trying to avoid trying so hard you can’t quit trying.

Step away from it, instead slamming my head against it. It’s better to let something sit and rest when learning something than it is to cram. You need to give yourself time to digest and reflect on what you have learned.

To avoid getting stuck use lubricant, and if you are already on it look for stairs or a ladder.