Education

When I first started my career as a software engineer after I graduated from Nanjing University, I encountered my first challenge at work.  I was challenged by the software called Microsoft Excel.  This is a software I never knew much about and it had lots of embedded functionality. 

As it was a kind of essential tool for my work, I decided to learn it quickly all by myself.

I surfed the Microsoft Office Support Site, and watched the teaching videos.  I also bought a book particularly about Excel to learn as well. But I still feel that I cannot handle it as a working tool as a whole.

Eventually, after many hours of learning, practicing and reading, I overcame the difficulties by breaking the learning processes down to manageable components, like basic skills, tables and charts, and functional formulas and so on. But, the most important thing is I tried to learn it by myself and succeeded in every step of the learning process and I saw how it works and functions.  I   also remember that because I tried I learned how to use Excel.

So, the lesson I got was unless you try to do it yourself, you will not learn it.  "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand."………..Xun Kuang.