Blender Tip#1: Tip of the Tips

The first thing, and when i say first i mean the REALLY REALLY FIRST thing you have to know when working in Blender, is that:

SELECTING THINGS IS DONE WITH THE RIGHT MOUSE BUTTON.

The LEFT MOUSE BUTTON is used to place the CURSOR. The cursor is the little crosshair with a circle in the middle which appears in general at the origin of your scene (that’ s if you didn’t LEFT CLICKed all over the 3D view trying to select things:) )