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Read more code. Edit code others have written. Maintain a wide variety of projects. Try to start your own.

Failure can be tough and sneaky: I didn't want to fail, so I Googled to see how others did it until I was sure... Then found I couldn't reach a consensus, and ended up "researching" for months. Sometimes doing it wrong isn't failing, after all, you've just found a way that didn't work-- that's progress.

Oh and reading or knowing how to do it isn't doing it. There can be quite a bit of work to doing it yourself, don't skip the exercises at the end of the metaphorical chapter ;-)