Learning New Software, Plugins, Etc.

Sometimes it takes a long time to learn something new, usually because you don’t have enough dedicated uninterrupted time to learn everything in one sitting. Usually you are able to learn and practice a little, then return to it again and again when you have time. And then after weeks or months you feel skillful and comfortable with all the aspects of it.

Personally I like taking my time to learn new software and plugins. Mostly plugins these days. And I feel that there’s a real benefit to learning a little at a time over weeks or months.

One of the biggest benefits is allowing my subconscious to “digest” what it recently learned, and then the next time I open the software I find myself noticeably better at operating it.

It reminds me of a seminar I once attended where they asked us each to juggle for 3 minutes even though we had never juggled before. Not surprisingly, I just kept dropping the balls and couldn’t juggle at all. Then we sat down and the presenter kept on teaching. After 30 minutes we were instructed to do the same exercise again the same way we had done it before, and in my VERY FIRST attempt I was able to juggle for like 3 or 4 repetitions! And for the next 3 minutes I was able to have many periods of juggling briefly. Why was I able to do it after 30 minutes of doing NOTHING? Because during those 30 minutes my subconscious was integrating everything I had “learned” from my first failed attempt at juggling.

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