Emacs is self-documenting, so you only need two things to use Emacs like a pro -- Emacs, and your brain.

The first thing a new Emacs user should do is to peruse the Emacs manual. You won't remember every detail, of course, but you should at least have a basic idea of what sorts of operations are available.

Then, start editing text. When you do something that seems tedious, you're doing it wrong. Try to remember back to the section of the manual that has something to do with what you were doing. Then read that section. Now try to redo the operation, but "the Emacs way" instead of the tedious way you invented yourself.

Do this several times a day.

Now you're an expert.

emacs has a text editor too? I always just used it as an irc client... (http://delysid.org/emacs/erc.html)

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsCrashCourse is fairly good for a quick introduction to similar ways of doing things in emacs. =)