When I was doing firmware computer engineering I would read the requirements over & over until I had page & paragraph memorized & figured out how to design & implement.

Musical instruments & soorts & learn by physically repeating & practicing until it is muscle memory. I spent hours on the racquetball court just hitting the ball.

Since moving to my farm & living alone & having to do the repairs I can physically handle I usually watch a YouTube "how to" before attempting anything. That method helped my replace the EGR valve on my truck, repair my lawn tractor, & do some plumbing around my house.

Sometimes just my logical thinking & reasoning is all it takes. Had a friend whose shifter handle on her van was just dangling. I got under the hood & asked her to just move it so I could see where what was going on. I fugured out what had come apart & got it back together well enough for her to make the 20 minute drive to her mechanic where the worn out part was replaced.

Many times I can just look at things & figure out how they work logically.

I always need to understand how things work in order to learn something. That was my problem with calculus in college. I just got through it but never understood the concepts.....so never learned it.

I think that my psychologist teaching how the brain functions was why I really learned the DBT besides working on it for 2 intense years. It just became a part of me at that point.

I also do a lot of research on topics I want to know a lot about. Internet articles & all the research I can find on a topic....looking at the whole topic not just a narrow part of it.