Originally Posted by
ryanjewell
If you like, knock yourself out...ive noticed that seems to be prime candidate #1 as far as advice that most new people choose to ignore. But the point they are trying to make is, if you focus on one thing, you will make significant strides quickly on that thing. You focus on multiple things, you will slow your progress on all of them. If you were learning Japanese...first you would learn the characters and how to say words, then grammar, then sentences. Its systematic. It's much slower to learn a language by trying to write out complete sentences until you have a good handle on the individual components...kind of a learn to walk before you try to run, you know?