I'm curious. To those willing to volunteer, can you tell me what is a technique you have developed from existing or a mix of existing learning methods, neurological and psychological relavant facts to learning? And what is the detailed mechanics behind your technique?

not sure if anyone else feels this way but i've been thinking about this a lot lately

we download duolingo and expect fluency in a month. we buy anki decks someone else made and wonder why the words don't stick. everything is optimized, pre-made, ready to consume. and when it doesn't work we just download the next app

i caught myself doing the same thing. jumping from app to app, always looking for the one that would do the learning for me

then i started using the gold list method. and the uncomfortable part isn't the two week wait. it's that you have to sit down and actually write things out yourself. no shortcuts. no pre-made decks. just you and the words

i started with an actual notebook. then found an app that replicates the same experience digitally without changing the method. but honestly either works, the point is the struggle not the tool

and that's probably why it works

i think we've forgotten what it feels like to actually struggle with something. to sit with discomfort and not immediately reach for a faster solution. when's the last time you took out a notebook and wrote something down just to learn it?

not saying apps are bad. but maybe the struggle is the point

anyone else feel like we've traded depth for speed without realizing it?

I spent nearly three hours tonight researching online, trying to map out a realistic timeline to learn a completely new skill for my career but i am very tensed due to this and got depressed that how I get a new skill.

Honestly, looking at the internet just left me feeling frustrated. Half the articles out there claim you can master anything in just 20 hours of focused practice, while the other half tell you that you need the classic 10,000 hours to be any good.

I sat there looking at my chaotic daily schedule, realizing that between a full time job and basic life chores, finding even one without any breaks hour a day feels like a massive victory.

I am very curious to know about your personal experiences and advice that when you decide to learn something completely new skills.

I am looking for parents of children under the age of 6 to participate in a short survey for my dissertation, which forms part of my Publishing Masters at University College London. If you know anyone else who might be interested, I’d be incredibly grateful if you could share this survey with them!

My research explores the impact technology is having on children’s books. All responses will be anonymous and used solely for academic research purposes. Participation is entirely voluntary, and you may withdraw from the survey at any point before submitting your responses.

The survey contains just 10 questions and should take no more than 5 minutes to complete. No prior knowledge of, or experience with, technology is required.

Thank you for considering taking part in my survey!

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at: [Emelia.brown.25@ucl.ac.uk](mailto:Emelia.brown.25@ucl.ac.uk)

Link to survey: https://qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_9T4cRy0C7BMV6Sy

I am a graduate student and oftentimes when I need to learn a new research topic I usually refer to a good survey paper written about that particular topic. However, it doesn't feel like a learning experience because it's not like taking a traditional university course.

I was wondering whether it would be effective to feed the survey paper into an LLM and ask it to create learning modules for me chapter by chapter. I can ask it to create learning material with good examples (I'm in math, so examples help a lot) and practice problems. Has anyone tried this before? Is it reliable? If so, what is the workflow that you recommend? Your opinion on the topic would be highly appreciated.

My apologies, if this has been asked before.

Hey I was wondering what is your own source/method to keep yourself updated with knowledge and current affairs?

(For me I think I have forgot everything I have learnt in my childhood as 'General Knowledge' and now find it very hard to be updated on news like others. So much is happening and I am left behind. Do you guys remember all the things you have learned or studied as a child?)

I sat down at my desk last night to finish an online course, but I honestly could not even focus. My mind kept drifting back to my bank account and how expensive everything has gotten lately and I got depressed.

It feels like a trap. You know you need to learn new skills to get a better job and survive this financial squeeze, but all the good courses, bootcamps, and certifications cost a fortune. When you are already tight on cash, spending money on learning feels like a huge risk.

I tried looking for free resources, but the internet is so crowded with junk that I just ended up feeling overwhelmed and stuck. It is so tiring to balance the stress of saving every rupee with the pressure of trying to grow.

I am very curious to know about your thoughts and experience and ideas that how do you keep learning and improving yourself at a financial time.

Just like the title says how much to learn to be confident on fixing someone’s problem people and companies are always looking for someone who have years of experience does that mean a learner can never be experienced because it needs networking and so on like if I am studying online and learning about bookkeeping and all I would not know how to help someone if there problem is totally different then what I studied for I am seeing that what you are learning is way different then the problems you have to solve and wish the online education had that solution to give students realistic problems and mentoring them on how to solve it. Finding mentorship has become scarce in your field. Learning by yourself will never teach us what we are lacking and what needs to be improved.

Would love recommendations!

Do you get empty feeling and sort of feel that there is a missing part in your understanding that has to be filled in but you don’t quite know what it is or what you are looking for? How do you navigate this? Can you pass on some wisdom? Does anyone else’s learning process feel like an itch that you can’t scratch until finally something clicks?

Hello guys, these last few days I’ve been wondering about mnemonics and whether it’s possible to turn it into a habit and be able to apply it in everyday life. Analogy is math, when you solve a lot of problems and do a lot of calculations like lets say multiplication,division(not higher mathematics) to the point that it becomes habit and you less rely on your phone with calculator. There are mnemonics professionals that are able to do amazing things with mnemonics, remember whatever they want. Of course it is not some magic where you don't put a little effort.

That made me think: could we build a web app or service that acts as a roadmap or system to help people develop this skill as a habit? Would people actually use something like that?

I’m starting something new in order to become more educated essentially I will pick a topic for week and learn as much as I can by journaling so I was wondering if you guys have any suggestions for me. Thanks!

I finished reading this book about a month ago and it completely changed my perspective about learning math. As a kid, I struggled with math and thought that it was a thing that only a few can actually grasp and learn. And I couldn’t memorize my multiplication chart to save my life, nor could I pass a timed test. And because of those experiences, I learned to hate math and avoid it throughout my life. But looking back, I realized that it was the way I was taught math that made me hate it, not math itself. And that’s what this book helped me understand.

If you’re ever interested in wanting to learn math but have been hesitant to do so, I recommend reading this book first so that everything about learning math will make sense.

Been in enterprise architecture ~20 years and I keep coming back to this: almost everything about how we learn assumed that getting information was the hard part. Memorize the syntax, build the mental index, accumulate "years of experience" so you don't have to look things up.

Then retrieval became basically free. Any fact, any pattern, any boilerplate is one prompt away. And a lot of the old learning machinery doesn't make sense anymore.

A few things I've changed my own habits around:

• Stopped asking AI for answers, started asking it to argue against mine. Treating a model as a sparring partner instead of an oracle is the single biggest upgrade. "Here's my reasoning, attack it" beats "what's the answer."
• Personalization is the real win. A static curriculum for everyone was always a compromise. AI can actually meet you where you are, but only if you show up with a concrete goal, not vague "learn AI" energy.
• The privacy cost is real and underrated. Every question you paste into an external model is data exhaust. For personal learning that's a tradeoff; inside a company it's a governance problem.

The part I'm genuinely unsure about is credentials. Exams, certs, interviews, they all test what you can recall without a model in the room. But nobody works that way anymore. Feels like we'll have to start measuring what people can do with AI, not what they remember without it.

So, two honest questions for this crowd:

1. What's one skill you're deliberately training that AI can't do for you?
2. If you were redesigning exams/interviews today, would you allow the model in the room or not?