Learn your tools until they disappear. When you stop thinking about the software, you start thinking about the idea.

Every second spent hunting for a menu is a second not spent on the decision underneath it. While the tool is still visible, your ideas get shaped by what you already know how to do, which is a much smaller set than what you can imagine. Fluency removes that ceiling. The point of learning shortcuts is not speed, it is that the software stops interrupting the thought.

Pick the three things you do most often and learn them properly once. Shortcuts, settings, the fast route. Twenty minutes now buys back a lot of attention later, and that attention goes into the work instead of the interface.