**When confronted with that new piece of gear, or software, or whatever, don't try to understand every single thing it can do all at once. Break it up into smaller things and work immediately with those smaller things.

Try to get the feel and the gist of some feature, sound, etc. by viewing the new thing as doing *only* that and nothing else for a few days.

"Familiarity breeds contempt."

Get familiar with *one thing* that it does at a time.

Plenty of time to get to the next thing and lots to gain from having mastered one thing.


--Mac