I have to chime in if I may.  I'm one of those guys who really struggled with Blender a lot.  I downloaded my first copy of it many years ago, but it sat in my hard drive, because I couldn't even so much as move an object when I first tried it out. I blamed it all on the UI, and the software was collecting dust until version 2.6 I think.  I took another run at it about a year ago, and tried many tutorials, but could never complete them, because I had a hard time following along. 

I remember trying to follow one tutorial on how to create a bottle cap.  The guy was doing all this advanced stuff, like adding arrays, and using empties, and things like that.  No way did I understand that, and was very frustrated.  I was thinking if it's that hard to make such a simple model in Blender, then I'm doomed, and should give it up.  Now it's gonna sound like I'm brown nosing here, but I have to credit Luxxeon (thank you!) for helping me achieve my very first successful model in Blender.  After crying about my failures in the 3d modeling forum, he created this simple tutorial for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4Q2rJ5roFA

And that ended up being the first model I made in Blender!  So I think sometimes it all depends on the teacher too!  I mean, I had no idea there was a better way to go about things out there, because some of the tutorials I was trying to follow were going about it the hard way themselves!  If luxxeon didn't show me different, I would have thought that the way the other guy was doing it was the only way.  So lesson to all new users... if a tutorial is too hard for you, just move on, or try to search out another one.  Chances are, there's an easier way to do it.