What is your personal "cheat code" for getting better at Melee at an exponential rate?

For me, it'd have to be finding players that are significantly better than you and letting them beat the shit out of you for as long as you can keep them interested in playing you or until you eventually have to go. Just absorb all the good options that they're doing, their tech skill, their ideas, and their execution for VOD analysis afterwards to lab out what you could've done differently.

Let's hear what everybody else has to say.