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Messing Around is a Great Way to Learn!
When you don't know what you're doing, you may feel slightly paralyzed. You may be afraid you are going to break something and be shamed by your peers or have to spend hours on hold trying to petition the mercy of Customer Service. Don't worry, this is a common feeling, and it is wrong, you should absolutely set out blindly into the darkness! If anything goes wrong, just turn it off and turn it on again! Now let's look at some ways to learn by messing around:

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Doodling

If you don't know where you're going, just follow yourself to nowhere. Likely this will take you in dizzying circles, which are highly appealing to most audiences.
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Shuffling

Don't wait for inspiration to strike, just force it by deliberately randomizing your factors. What if the sky was green? What if you could write a novel by cutting up books and gluing them together again? Worked for William S. Burroughs, after all
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Attempting Impossible Things

The more you go ahead and try to do things you don't know how to do, the more you will learn about how to do other things,.
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