My take on questions is as long as the person is doing their best, they arn't silly.
They may seem so to someone who has forgotten they too started low and worked up. I havn't.
I worked with a guy on switch gear and diesels who was afraid of 480 Volts, smoked like a chimney he was so nervous , made an extremely serious mistakes that could have cost us an engine. We thought he was worth helping along.
Years latter I had interaction with him and he portended he was self made, golden, perfect. Hmm, dude you screwed up that seal on the injection pump and I was the one that caught it was dumping even more diesel into the crank. His arrogance was astonishing..
I was lucky. My dad reloaded and I had an idea of what it was about. My step dad got us into it latter on and he taught us good basics. So when I got deeper into it, I had a solid base.
And that also gets into what combo of reading and seeing it makes sense to whatever mix is in your brain.