How to learn to program?

How did you learn?  I'm not asking how you learned a particular language, but how you learned how to program in general.

I first wanted to learn c++ like, everyone on the internet told me to(fucking assholes) but strugling with OOP i failed.
Then i went on to C, only to learn that C stdlib sucks more cocks than my sister on fridays.
Having a little knowledge in reverse engineering i turned to ASM, searching and searching for libraries that dont suck i was fustrated again, Attempting to build my own failed due to my little knowledge of OSes.
One day i stumbled upon perl whose feature rich library i could exploit to the fullest. I then came to learn about its unix nature and linux and have been using linux ever since.
Making bigger and bigger scripts which turned into programs one day i have atained knowledge, combining it with the unix like nature slackware i also learned many things about unix, linux and computers in general.
Being to stupid to read trough SICP and its excercises, i have simply watched the video lectures and even doing it only half assed i have still learned many things about lisp.
It was then that one day i required a GUI, knowing that the sucked all, my path led me to Emacs and its lisp nature.

AND IN THE END MY OTHER CAR IS A CDR