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One of my most recent "A-Ha" moments happened over the summer. I bought this really cool car... only problem was, it was a manual. My dad reassured me that learning to drive stick would prove to be easy... but if you were to go back in time and ask brand-new-car-owner, Nicole... I would definitely disagree. The first day was really, really terrible. I killed that thing more times than I should have, and I about had a mental breakdown. Seriously. I had this rad car, and I couldn't even drive it. So I decided to turn to YouTube for some additional guidance on how to drive my car. I watched probably a good three hours worth of instructional videos about how to drive a stick. The videos really told me basically the same things that my dad was telling me the day before, but the next day when I got in the car, something clicked, and I just figured it out. I'm not sure if it was the extra time spent, or something that one of the guys in the videos said, or maybe a combination of the two... but something happened, and the next day I was a heck of a lot better than I was on the first day.