I think that learning something new was a lot easier for me when I had the completely incorrect impression that almost everything I needed to know was in the one book I got from the library or bookstore (especially back when these places would often have only one book on a technical topic). Once I understood the book, I'd be a master! Being young, naive, and without any internet left me awfully gung-ho and I didn't need any external "Just Do It" prodding. Now when I think I'm interested in learning something new, and I dare do search on it, it's something akin to the scene in The Lawnmower Man where the guy's head almost explodes when he walks into the library and tries to absorb everything.
