The easiest way to learn is to sit your ass down and learn. You can take that literally or metaphorically depending on what you're trying to learn. I'm trying to learn HTML coding, so I've been literally sitting my ass down. Finished watching Zonelets' tutorials. There's still learning to be had in the helpful tips included in the styles and HTML code guides of the Zonelets' starter pack, but it's time to sit and learn from W3Schools Online.
Every time I settle in to briefly fuck with HTML, an hour passes by. You wouldn't know this by looking at the small tweaks to this site, but I'm learning. At the very least, gaining a slightly (ever-so-slightly) more refined view of HTML has demystified the basics of a website. If I inspect a page's HTML, I can take comfort knowing that everything was written for a reason. Every character has purpose. Writing, for me, is at its best when it cuts straight to the heart of the matter, and to do so means you've got to agonize over every single word. Review your writing. Tweak your writing. Repair your writing. Otherwise, what's the point? Don't spill your words needlessly.
There's plenty of overlap between coding and analog writing. There's a beauty to all this if you're willing to sit and learn it, however painstaking it might feel to work for an hour and have very little to show for your effort.
I hand-wrote the links on this page. There's your painstaking something for today.