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I work with a bunch of different IT systems at work. I've been doing this job for 15 years. I'm pretty familiar with the systems and even if I end up having to look at another vendor's version, I still "get it". But we have this one system at work that's different than all of the rest. I'd love to learn it. It's not that common, but I like to learn new things. Unfortunately, everytime I learn this stuff or get a little training, I forget 99% of what I learned because I only get to work with it about 3-4 times a year. It's frustrating.

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Give it 10,000 hours and you'll have it mastered!

Actually, that's been proven as bunk. Even the folks that originally said it agree that it's bunk. Apparently, aptitude, talent, intelligence, etc... have a large effect on learning.