The way I learned Emacs was by immersing myself in it. I just decided that I would only use Emacs for the next 2 weeks at work, and if it slowed my productivity

The way I learned Emacs was by immersing myself in it. I just decided that I would only use Emacs for the next 2 weeks at work, and if it slowed my productivity to a crawl, so be it (it was clearly during a time when there weren't any deadlines). I also was sitting next to someone who had been using it for a few years so I could just yell out "how do I open a file again??" and he'd yell back "control-x, control-f!" A couple years later our vi friend expressed interest and did the same thing. His monitor was littered with little post-it notes until the muscle memory kicked in. You might be thinking, is it really worth my time to learn something esoteric like Emacs, but there are many nice perks once it's been learned. It turns out the default keybindings in readline (and every program that uses readline) are Emacs keys, so it's a exciting feeling realizing you just hit C-t in some random program and it transposed the characters like you wanted. macOS also has many Emacs keybindings in the default text field (where they don't conflict with standard mac keys).