One of the more useful ways to get in touch with how learning really happens is to ask yourself the question: how did you learn x, y or z? Most of the things we do as adults we learned "on the job" or through trial and error. Rarely did we learn any of what we are now using through any traditional schooling. That is not to say you cannot learn useful things through classes you take. However, learning and what you really take in as your own is a much more personal and complex process then is tr