You know who can read a Tutorial/Teaching book?
Only people who know this stuff already and just forgot about that, but still have the steps in their hidden brain.
I suggest playing around abit in 3dsmax, take a bit look at the tutorial and look on what tools the tutorial is based.
Afterwards you learned abit those tools yourself, get used to the tutorials and read them to get teached.
A bad Driver Cant drive a fast car and get on the Top.
He needs to get used to a car and then he can try it.
It will be in any situation, you have to play around with everything with what you want to get used. If you will be still interested on it while playing around, then it may be worth trying learning it.
good luck!