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I think of it more like learning a language. Yes, you have to put the effort in and learn your grammar and basic vocab yourself - but in conjunction you want to immerse yourself into hearing experts speak it. Watching a film you fancy with subtitles or another audio stream is still mainly entertainment, but it's making you better. Every person who's picked up an instrument has done so, so they can play something they heard and enjoyed.

Also - I don't need to master something. I like the messing about. Occasionally you'll later stumble across a problem you'd accidentally learnt the answer to - and that's gratifying, but it was never the point.