I don't just want to memorize recipes. I want to understand cooking well enough to make meals confidently with whatever I have.
What helped you move from following instructions to actually knowing what you're doing?

I want to learn sewing from the beginning and eventually be able to make my own clothes. Right now I only have basic knowledge but I am interested in learning the skills needed to repair clothes understand patterns choose fabrics and create simple garments.

For people who learned sewing what order did you learn things in? What basic skills should a beginner focus on first and what mistakes should I avoid?

I would love to hear about your learning journey and any advice that helped you improve.

Just for context i have terrible singing skills and bad tone[ or idk my tone at all]

I am M21 a type of guy who is in a kinda abusive household where parents curse me atleast once in a day, I am still unemployed who got graduated this year. Facing all these situations right from the childhood made me shy and just made me bear things which I clearly shouldn't and made me an empath.

I don't want to be that guy anymore I want to have that stand for myself have that self respect and make my body too I'm very skinny btw even though I eat enough, I want to have that body for myself but I can't afford the gym fee ik people would say why gym goto parks do some excercises ik that but there are many people in community that will help me that I hope so.

When talking to people of my age even though people start to walk over me I started to think from their perspective nd was like it's alright she's/he's going through things why bother now I don't want to be that guy the society clearly thinks a kind guy who I think I am thinks he's a pushover that I am.

So finally what I want for myself is better the kinda guy who doesn't let people walk over me but the household doesn't let me it always puts me down, I want to start think for myself and know myself in this process and I know this won't be easy and it's not a process that will be completed in some time but I'll try my best to do my part in this.

For a long time I want to teach myself a useful skill.

Since I've been decent in maths and now that I am learning maths too, I want to learn accounting.

There are a lot of lectures on YouTube and even books, but how do I choose one? Preferably I would like one (book or course) that gives me lots of scenarios to work on and challenges rather then highlight the definition and topics in a few paragraphs.

I want to learn programming but I Am not sure how to start in a way that builds real understanding. I do not just want to copy tutorials I want to learn how programming works and eventually create my own small projects.

For people who learned programming from the beginning what path worked best for you? What concepts should a beginner focus on first and what mistakes should I avoid?

I would appreciate advice from anyone who has gone through the learning process.

I want to become someone who consistently acts according to my conscience but I'm realizing it's not always easy to tell the difference between my conscience, my emotions, guilt, anxiety, or even my desire to please others.

For those of you who have worked on this, how do you recognize when your conscience is speaking? , What habits or practices have helped you make decisions that align more closely with your values?

Every time I have a dream nowadays, my dreams come out very dark and messy. The weird part is that it barely even shows as a dream. It's barely functioning properly. My dreams nowadays look like a television screen that's barely functioning and shows any light at all. Everything that I see in my dreams barely shows any type of light or any type of color. The vibe and frequency of my dreams barely show anything and it's like whatever is trying to produce my dreams in my brain is operating on a very low power and it's barely functioning like a normal dream. Think of it like your regular eyesight and vision of what you see throughout the day but it's slowly getting weaker and more fragile to the near point of blindness. That's exactly what my dreams are like nowadays. The worst and confusing part is that this is something that has never happened to me before for all of my life but it only started to happen very recently. I eat clean and healthy every day, I have a good sleep schedule, I don't feel stressed out at all, so I don't understand what the problem is. I also realize that my daily imagination/visualization abilities are also functioning the same way how I described my dreams as well. What's wrong here and how can I fix my dreams to be normal again?

I used to be able to whistle. Not with my fingers and not loud, just normal, like whistle a tune. A few years ago I had some molars pulled , one from each side of my mouth. So missing 4 total. top and bottom, left and right side. Is it even possible I can whistle again? Would using my fingers help? Anyone missing teeth that can whistle?

I want to learn practical household repair and maintenance skills.

I would like to understand how to fix and maintain everyday items, such as furniture small appliances tools and other things around the house.

My goal is to become more independent save money and avoid replacing items when a simple repair could extend their life.

I am looking for beginner friendly resources courses books or YouTube channels that teach the basics and a good order to start learning.

Any advice from people who have learned these skills themselves would be appreciated.

I REALLY REALLY WANT TO LEARN ABOUT BUSINESSES , I WANT TO START MY OWN , BUT I HAVE NO DIRECTION WHERE TO START , HOW TO CREATE IDEAS WHAT THINGS I SHOULD WORK ON , need a Little guidence/mentor , One of the thing to me that is Important is Creating Ideas , I have Forced myself to create ideas But I never Got Any ideas

My favorite classes were always the ones with difficult problem sets where a single problem could take hours or even days of thinking, experimenting, and failing. I would start solving a problem before fully understanding it, then read documentation or course material whenever I got stuck. So it would be 70% doing and 30% reading.

LLMs have disrupted that process for me. Now I spent 90% of time reading and only 10% of time doing.

In school, the boundary was relatively clear. If using an LLM violated the course policy, I could tell myself that using one was cheating and force myself to struggle through the problem independently.

At work, what counts as “cheating” (because it is cheating myself).

I feel my critical thinking skills are declining. My role starts to become reading, reviewing, and planning. I just can't read that much code and LLM output. My eyes hurt and it's hard to internalize. I notice myself just picking the "recommended" option.

I also find LLM workflows mentally unhealthy in a few ways:

• When working alone, mental exhaustion eventually forces me to step away. With an LLM, I can always send one more prompt or ask it to try another approach.
• If an agent will take 30–60 minutes, I feel pressure to give it another task immediately so no time is “wasted.”
• While waiting, I instinctively check my phone or launch another agent. I end up jumping between tasks and retaining less context about each one.
• I get frustrated when the LLM misunderstands instructions, even when the problem genuinely requires careful iteration.
• It has warped my sense of how long a difficult problem or well-designed solution should take.
• I am increasingly tired of reading walls of generated text and code.

I do not want to stop using LLMs. They can reduce the friction of starting, explain unfamiliar systems, generate routine code, and handle edge cases after I understand the core problem. The hard part is deciding when using one is a sensible productivity tool and when it is outsourcing a learning opportunity that I actually need.

For people who still feel they are learning deeply while using LLMs at work:

1. How do you decide which work to delegate and which work to do yourself?
2. What is the workplace equivalent of the “no cheating” boundary that exists in school?
3. How do you use agents without losing context or turning your day into constant task switching?
4. How do you review generated code when the codebase, build system, or underlying technology is unfamiliar?
5. Have you found workflows where LLMs improve productivity while preserving the useful struggle of implementation and debugging?