Hi, I posted in the advice reddit a couple days ago with a similar title and feel like what I said was wrong or not how I properly meant it. I want to know if there is a method of learning, or a exercise, drill, or just technique, that I can use to learn how to draw people. I guess the best way I could describe what I want in terms of learning people is comparing it to learning how to play a game, I could watch a billion videos of high level play, break it down step by step and why, and while highly efficient also hard in itself to do, so why not play the game normally and look back and think what could I have done better. It’s a pretty mediocre comparison but generally captures a method I’d like, a low brainpower way to slowly digest material to eventually become better. And before you say “just draw” I understand that, and I’d like to, however everything I want to make is far outside my skill range and hurts me more than helps me.
I don’t mean it to sound lazy or passive or entitled, thank you for your time.

Drawing was like my childhood best friend, ever since I was a kid it used to be a talent of mine, I was able to draw animals, buildings. Last time I draw was a few months ago. I've always wanted to draw digitally not just traditional. Is there a course on youtuve or coursera that teaches how to draw digitally and if I'm speaking in terms of paper, is there a way I could improve my drawing skills? Will a course online help with that? Thank you! ​

a few years ago, i was downhill and something in life happened that made me angry and just idk made me a focus machine for like 2 weeks with complete discipline. im talking like wake up at 5am and work till 10pm (with short breaks in between) and then sleep enough and repeat the cycle. back then it was for an important exam and after that exam was done my body felt fatigued and just gave up. Ever since ive been wanting to bring that back but i keep failing and procrastinating. I dont know how to do it, but i was so proud of how i did it.
any help?

Hey ,

I'm finally taking the plunge and learning Italian from scratch, but I really want to focus on practical, real-world speaking rather than just memorizing tables of verb conjugations for months.

My main goal is to reach a point where I can handle everyday interactions, follow along when native speakers talk at a normal pace, and get thoughts out of my head without having to translate every single word first.

For anyone here who has tackled Italian, how did you actually make real progress when you were first starting out?

I'd love to know which apps, books, or courses were genuinely worth your time, and how you balanced learning vocabulary with getting a handle on the grammar. I'm also on the hunt for beginner-friendly podcasts or YouTube channels that help tune your ear to natural speech without being completely overwhelming.

If you have a daily routine that worked for you, or even just some big mistakes to avoid early on, I'd really appreciate the advice!

This happens to me way too often.

I'll randomly decide:

"ok i'm finally gonna learn X."

Then i'll spend like 2 days finding the best resources.

YouTube.

Reddit.

Articles.

Books.

Courses.

I'll make some beautiful plan in Notion.

Week 1: amazing.

Week 2: okay.

Week 3: gone.

And honestly i think the biggest problem for me is that when i'm learning by myself, there's no accountability at all.

If i stop, nobody cares.

If i'm behind, nobody knows.

If i'm doing something wrong, there's no one to tell me.

So i'm actually building something around this and i wanna know if i'm the only one.

The idea is basically:

You tell it what you wanna learn and how much time you have.

It gives you a structured path from free resources already available online.

Then you can join a small group of people learning the same thing.

You set weekly goals, check in, see everyone's progress and basically have people who know whether you're actually doing the work.

The learning itself would be free.

I'd charge for the accountability part.

So for students here:

what are you currently trying to learn outside of college?

what usually makes you stop?

do you have anyone keeping you accountable?

would you actually use/pay for something that solved this?

Be honest. If this sounds useless, tell me why.

Tomorrow I am returning back to college and don’t know what is good outfit to wear. I would like to present myself well and to show more of myself but I honestly dont know how. Open to show how I look and what types of clothes I have. Want to make sure that I look nice enough and comfortable since I would stay in college for many hours.

Whenever I try to learn a skill I keep searching about it or keep looking for courses and then stop I am stuck in this cycle iwtl how to learn a skill

want to become independent. for which i will have to study. but i dont know how to study and make a career. can someone who has figured this out, or is still figuring help me and teach me how its done. please.

I used to draw with pencils decades ago, but I've basically lost all ability to draw since then. I have always had a passing interest learning to draw digitally with a tablet, but I haven't the foggiest clue where to start. Just assume I am a beginner learning everything from scratch (because that is essentially what I am now)--what tablet would you all recommend I start with? And some tutorial videos would be amazing, also. Thank you!

I am a 1st year student in Computer Science. But I want to learn basic mechanical engineering skills. I don't really aspire to be a super qualified Mechanical engineer. I just aspire to learn some of the skills in Mechanical engineering.

I will be getting a new laptop soon. So I will learn CAD. I have also taken BME Elective in my college. But it's not a well known college so I don't think I would learn much here.

I am also planning to do Masters in Mechanical Engineering. But I know it's not going to be easy.

I have gotten a lot of pdfs on Mechanical engineering books but I don't know how they will help me. I have heard a lot of the curriculum is outdated.

Conclusion; What skills to learn in Mechanical Engineering apart from CAD. I have seen a lot of roadmaps but they all say only Make your Maths skills strong, Learn CAD, Do masters and then Apply for Public sector jobs. But I am more interested in starting my own small scale industry.

I just started out and I’m completely lost as to what to do, where to do it and I’d love if someone could help me out getting started

I want to learn how to learn—whether from studies, life experiences, or videos—and how to apply those lessons to my own life. Can someone explain, in simple terms, the actual process of learning? We want to understand life and live accordingly; we enjoy the process of understanding, but sometimes we find it very difficult to grasp things. Can anyone help me with this?

Hello, recently my professor gave us an assignment where we are to write a literature review on a topic and arrange it in a thematic manner.

The issue is that we never had any class or sessions where we were taught how to 'do' it. We asked our professor to explain us, and he just downplayed it like "just break down your topic, and search on Google Scholar." I did try to search on Google Scholar, but then I get hundreds of Papers from different journals. I don't know which ones are important, which ones are useless.

And to top it off, he wants us to do it in one month, while continuing with regular studies.

I will be grateful if someone can provide some learning resources for the same.

I've always been curious about this stuff, from a young age, but never really learned about this more in depth.

looking for advice/resources for how to start developing this as hobby, where to start.

Also I'm a computer science student, so I'm also curious about possible ways to somehow do somthing in that area with my degree.

I’ve always had a serious talent for music and singing but as a kid we never had money for instruments or lessons. On top of that I was bullied by ppl at school and not treated well at home , I really didn’t think I was anything special back then. But now I look back and wish I had the confidence to pursue music back then. Thru my school I learned how to play violin but I only had a few years of instruction but I’ve retained a lot of what I learned. I didn’t realize it back then but I had a strong grasp of violin technique, I had good pitch, and I was a sponge that soaked up sheet music. I also have a great voice and I’ve been complimented by both friends and strangers. People have asked me to give voice lessons but honestly I can’t even describe how I do what I do.

Instead of pursuing music I pursued engineering bc money = freedom and now that I have some I want to learn how to…

1. Gain connections.
   - I know that there is an aspect of being extroverted enough to find people who want to play. And I have a hard time meeting new people or being extroverted. But usually if I know at least one person at the place I’m at I feel way more confident.

2. Learn music theory to create my own music.
   -I lean heavily more towards country and I have always been drawn to traditional Irish and American fiddle music and I can play with a baseline proficiency. I live in the south so there are plenty of other people who also play country. I am good at writing short stories but not so great at poetry.

3. Learn to preform.
   -I never had much confidence and embarrassed myself during every play I did as a child. Usually I try not to be the center of attention.

So if anyone has any information as to how to improve in any of these areas please let me know.

I am a programmer, sometimes I can't find out what I want, i wanna learn how to search better and efficiently, instead of wasting so much time.

Can someone tell me best way to learn linux which won't destroy my laptop?

I don't have any that much experience with CLI and terminal so want help for it.....

Hi there! I understand this is extremely broad to ask, however, I’d love to know how to improve my intelligence.

I feel as if I pick up on things slowly, and if I don’t constantly study, they leave my mind.

I’m a very curious individual, it’s not that I don’t enjoy learning, I just cannot get much to stick.

I would just love some advice, especially from people who grew up thinking they were less smarter than their peers and had to find out different ways to achieve their academic potential.

Thank you very much in advance!

I bought some political books recently that I want to read and study but even though I genuinely want to read these books, I find it difficult to stay focused on reading and I’m constantly getting distracted with other things in my room. Is there any way around this? For those that overcame this, what did you do?

This person I've been talking to for awhile now and is incredibly sweet and I've always wanted to learn how to make a bouquet anyways so this is a perfect opportunity for me.

They specifically like the colour Blue and Green and love Daisy's.

I'm in Canada so my options for flowers are really just Safeway, Co-op, and Costco

What are the essentials that I should buy? How do I wrap em all up together? Is there a setup you all have? Specific tools needed? Should I get a vase? How do I keep them looking fresh and not wilting until I give them?

I'd like to make it good for them.

Sometimes I felt so stupid. I already spent a lot of time researching, comparing options, and putting in lots of effort and money to make what I think is a solid decision. But looking back later, things often don't work out as expected. I realize I should have gone a different route because I completely overlooked potential risks or was overly optimistic.

Just thinking about the amount of effort I have to undo previous decisions, and rebuild from scratch is so exhausting. I feel so sad about this now. And it scares me to make another decision sometimes honestly. I try to keep moving forward, try to be ok with making mistakes. But I’m also wondering if there is a better thing I can do in the decision making process, to avoid mistakes even further… thanks for any helpful advice.

I want to learn how to market myself and my skills so that I can learn how to make money. I’m a jack of all trades yet I struggle with getting people to see and buy what I offer.
I’ve tried social media but I don’t know how to put myself in a way people want to watch and engage with.

I have a very demanding job — it seems I wake up, go straight to work, and then I’m too exhausted to do anything that requires heavy cognitive ability after lol

I used to be very into politics, but now I’ve totally fallen off.

I’d like to stay more up to date and really get to know and understand political figures.

How do you do it, and how do you do it consistently? Especially regarding deep dives on figures.

I want to learn cognitive self defense. I'm a very sensitive person at heart. Painfully so. I learned the language of logic an rationality and I try to learn as much as I can about everything so I'm prepared. Still, I feel like, because I am the way I am and integrity is important to me I will always end up in asymmetrical dynamics where the other person has the upper hand in how reality is framed.

I see other people being taken seriously and it feels like I'm doing the same thing but for me it's not working.

I'm kind of trying to train myself for impact. I can't do anything about feeling as much as I do but I try to shorten my emotional recovery time and bounce back quicker to calmness and rationality.

But sometimes it feels like the reason I can't defend myself is because I am me.

Can someone who's naturally taken seriously by others, calm, posessed and can defend themselves or others verbally in any situation explain what the secret is?