Heat the joint, not the solder. A do-it-tonight lesson: iron and tip care, tinning, what a cold joint looks like and why it fails intermittently, the pin-outs worth memorising, and finding the fault that only appears when you wiggle it.
This is the most immediately practical lesson in the specialization. Soldering is a manual skill with one governing principle and a couple of hours of practice attached, and being able to repair a cable at eleven at night is the difference between a session that continues and one that stops.
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