This is really interesting to me. I used to do the strategy the author illustrates: follow along with tutorials and google when something doesn&#x27;t work.<p>It didn&#x27;t work for me at all. I found myself having gone through many, many tutorials (video and text) only to remember none of it when I came back to the subject months or years later. I never had any understanding because I was always following along and just googling when I ran into snags.<p>These days I do the complete opposite. I try to learn as much as I can. I never follow along with the learning material. Instead, I go through a section, taking notes, and then try to recreate it all from memory. Rather than focusing on what I need to know right now, I&#x27;ve learned to appreciate all of the little details. I try to do as much as I can with pencils and paper because it&#x27;s slower, which forces me to spend more time with the information.<p>Indeed, I am very jealous of the author. It took me years before I learned how I learn. I wish that I was smart enough to use the author&#x27;s strategy. Instead I found myself not knowing how any of my stuff worked, running into hours of frustration whenever I ran into a problem or a bug that StackOverflow couldn&#x27;t answer. So if you&#x27;ve used the author&#x27;s strategy and it didn&#x27;t work, don&#x27;t worry! We&#x27;re not all geniuses! You will find out how you learn if you keep trying different things.