Reply To: How do I follow along? A very dumb question but important for me!

[Wayne Dixon]

Hi @somethinglolz,

This is totally not a dumb question at all!

Learning is fun, but it’s weird.

Sometimes when you learn a new skill, it can feel like you are getting nowhere.  

But I always try to think about this…

It will take exactly as long as needed for you to understand and learn something.

Hopefully, that can help keep you calm in times of frustration – it helps me.

I would also like to mirror @jlampel ‘s advice.

Try watching it twice (or more).  First to understand the general steps, and then a second time for the details.

Understanding the steps and why is 20 times more important than which buttons to push.

You can even take notes as you go through the first time so that when it comes time for you to do the task yourself you don’t need to scrub through the video and try to remember what value you where meant to use.

It’s like you are going for a walk.  If you take a walk at you are looking at your feet the whole time, you are not really going to know how you got to where you ended up.  But if you walk with your head up, you can see where you are going, all the things along the way.  You will even enjoy it more.  Plus you will be easily able to avoid bumping into all those people with their heads down looking at their phones 😉

One last bit of advice is to remember what skill level you are at.

You cannot jump from total beginner straight to expert in one step or even by doing something once.  You have to level up little by little.  So don’t aim to be the expert and make something “perfect” (which doesn’t exist).  All you need to do is aim for the level above where you are now.

Hope this helps.

Good luck with your learning.  Learning is fun!