Nice post.
I was the one last night that suggested that "learning" how to play poker by watching poker on tv was a bad idea. Probably just about as bad (maybe even worse) as learning how to play by playing with Fake money!
Experience is the best teacher, but it is an expensive one as well. You can save yourself a LOT of losing sessions if you read a few decent poker books first, and actually apply what you have learned. That's important too.