You are 100% correct! I did start (today 3 weeks ago) in the wild, being utterly confused, looking to find my way. I got lucky to stumble-upon the Utopian-IO movement that was just beginning at the same time, and by joining them over at the Discord chatserver. From there on, I met a lot of people, also on steemit.chat and I was taught a lot of interesting stuff, by talking to people and reading a lot of suggested material. Cheers!