Break the thing you want to learn into the smallest possible pieces, and set mini-goals of mastering each one. The fastest way to learn, say, Python, isn't to

Break the thing you want to learn into the smallest possible pieces, and set mini-goals of mastering each one. The fastest way to learn, say, Python, isn't to read a Python book as fast as possible. It's a lot of little steps in the form of "be able to write an if statement without referencing the documentation."