How do people learn technologies fast? [migrated]

How do people learn technologies fast? [migrated] References pI keep on reading blogs and tweets about how somebody just sat through few days, learned a new technology and hacked together a new project in a weekend. It is simply unfathomable for me. I recently was studying WPF and it took me a whole of 3 months to get a good understanding of some basics and almost two projects to appreciate it./p pI am currently trying to learn Angular and getting into understanding a project in Javascript/PHP. It seems to be taking forever (2 months and counting) and I am just starting to understand the basics. How do people learn and do things so fast? Or am I slow or is there any technique by which I can also improve significantly my speed of learning?/p pEDIT : I feel bad updating to my boss that I am still learning. I am not able to show any valuable progress./p pThanks.../p