Editing Introduction to a Self Managed Life: a 13 hour & 28 minute presentation by FUTO software (section)

== This seems like a lot ==

If this is too much, realize this. 99% of installing programs that are packaged with docker means doing the following:

# Downloading a <code>docker-compose.yml</code> file
# Running the command <code>docker compose pull</code> to grab program
# Running the command <code>docker compose up -d</code> to start program.
# You’re done.
# If an idiot like me can do it, then so can you.

'''YOU DO NOT NEED TO BECOME AN EXPERT SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR OVERNIGHT.'''

The best way to learn is to try and understand things one part at a time. You do it like this:

# Set something up, have it work.
# Have no idea what you did.
# Mess around with it &amp; enjoy it.
# Use the kick of dopamine from it working &amp; enjoying it to get motivated.
# Read a piece of a config file just for the hell of it and see if it maps to anything in the program/what you’re doing.
# If it makes no sense, don’t worry about it, keep enjoying the program &amp; increasing your stock of dopamine &amp; happiness &amp; satisfaction.
# Come back to it again later.
# Read a little bit.
# Read something on a forum/manual/guide that makes little sense to you, but maybe 1% more sense now than it did a week ago.
# Pat yourself on the back for understanding it even though you think this is kindergarten level &amp; you’re an idiot &amp; everyone else knows way more than you.
# Enjoy program more.
# Don’t crap on yourself because you don’t get everything.
# When bored sitting in a meeting you have no business wasting your time in, alt-tab over to your <code>docker-compose.yml</code> file.
# Google random parts &amp; see what they do.
# Think about how that piece of software works. Google what the different words inside of the file do, what those programs are for, &amp; how they relate to the program working as a whole.
# See if you understand 1% more now than before.
# Each percent you understand is not '''cumulative''' - it is '''''exponential!''''' Learning this stuff is a parabola. In the beginning, it is insanely slow. Once you get started &amp; understand the foundation, learning increases at an exponential pace.
# You need to overcome that period where you feel like an imposter &amp; a total idiot in order to get better.
# Realize that even complete experts know [https://wiki.futo.org/index.php/FUTO:General_disclaimer 0.0001%] of what there is to know about all of this and usually specialize in one specific area, because to understand how everything works is damn near impossible.

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