I can't take a book and make myself learn ("push").
Instead, I find a project I'm interested in and let it "pull" me in. Sort of the difference between studying a French book ("push") and actually going to live in France ("pull") with French people. You still bring the book of course.
I didn't see it mentioned, but the whale shark is even larger. One whale shark was found to be 62 feet long.
(Yes, I know: "one of the world's largest")
1. It would be nice to right click on a file in the solution explorer and have the menu include "Open File Location".
2. When working with C++, it would be nice is it helped with #include's i.e. give me the relative pathname. Don't make me compile it to find out if the file address is right.