[joshcrews]

> Do you have an actual product you want to work on?

Having a real product to build, even if its just to help yourself and not the world is key. It gets you out of the tutorials (which you need to do) and into finding out the main problems you have to solve to get something live.

And once you've got something live, you've built your mental framework that you can "hang" everything else you learn on.

[mnoire]

Couldn't agree more. The urge and desire to start learning was constantly squashed by the daunting task at hand. Once my ideas began to coalesce into something coherent, the passion and interest superseded the difficulty or fear I'd never "get it".