Learn IT

The best way to Learn IT is to just Do IT. And by IT, I’m saying, “Information Technology”, or just software.

You know, there’s no magic pill in learning how to use software. Sets of instructions presented in a predictable pattern teach you how to do the rote movements without fully understanding what the software is doing. That paints an incomplete picture of how to use the software.

Plus, software today is too complicated to remember hundreds of different functional patterns.

To best learn how to use something, you immerse yourself within it. Try it. Break it. Do something with it. See if it works for you. Then start over and do it again, and again, and again, until you understand how the program is working. That will make you a master of it.

Too often do I hear people say, “I don’t know Excel” or “I don’t know how to use Twitter” or “I don’t know Linux, and I prefer Windows.” Somehow that suffices as an excuse.

Funny how we’ve become so comfortable in saying “I don’t know” – it’s so much easier than trying to know! All it takes is acting upon your intention to learn software by using it.

That’s the best way to learn something new, and not from some textbook or some talking head like me showing you to the motions. Like anything – languages, riding a horse, visiting a city, solving a math problem – you can be told the basics, but eventually, you’ve got to find a reason to go there on your own, and make it your own. And that’s truly the only way you’ll learn IT.

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