Learning something new has elements of bliss and terror. We all know the bliss of learning something new. The first time you figure out how to do something is a magical feeling that one never tends to lose. Stuck in the back of your mind is the first time you rode a bike, solved a complex math problem, and as a DBA, when you built your first backup system that you felt you could rely on in a catastrophe.
The terror on the other hand, is often simply centered around the problem of not knowing how to get started. This