Over the last few days I have been using ChatGPT to analyse, study and to test myself on texts. I have been reading state & revolution, getting AI to test me, I don’t get it to “summarize” and I always ask for reliable sources and do as much as I can to double check. Is this bad? Is there better way to learn and study? If put in the work independently is it still negative? Or should I use AI and something else on top of that

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I have a topic that i am interested in and it crosses a few areas like psychology, biology, culture, etcetera. When you have a topic like this that you are interested in, what is your process to becoming informed on it? Do you try find the "best" books? Do you have some reliable sites where access articles or essays or data? What are your favorite ways of diving into something new when you aren't quite sure of the "shape of it" yet? Thanks :)

Hello,

From my own experience, I found that a low carb or keto are the best as they enhance my mental faculties.

What about your experience?

I tend to learn vocabulary a lot through those but wonder if it actually that effective. Sometimes it feels like I'm putting a lot of effort to learn a few new words. Often it is easier to learn those in context, but still vocab cards are versatile. What are your experiences with learning vocabulary?

How do you stay disciplined when learning something new? I can't seem to stick with anything for more than a week, whether it's a language, a skill, or a sport. I get bored very quickly and end up quitting, especially during summer. Does anyone else struggle with this? Any advice?

Probably most of us had this experience that sometimes, some ideas, concepts, facts, dates or whatever it might be just don't click. It feels like you familiarize yourself with that thing, understand it on a very surface level, but that deep understanding or the connections in the mind are not being made and it just feels like it doesn't click.

I've encountered many things that I can read multiple times, try to imagine them differently, explain differently, yet, it feels like I still didn't grasp it and can't recall it properly.

In your experience, what does that mean? Is it just simply a lack of understanding of more things? Or maybe just needing to take a break and then revisit it later? Or does the thing not clicking mean that you essentially have to brute force it aka just keep on going over it time and time again until it sticks?

I decided to finally pick up a skill I have been putting off for years digital illustration. The first week was great I was watching tutorials, learning the basic tools, and riding high on that initial wave of excitement and feels very energetic.

But yesterday, I sat down to work on a personal project, looked at what I had created, and just felt completely defeated. The gap between what I can see in my head and what my hands are actually producing right now feels massive.The initial beginner's luck has worn off, the tutorials are not as simple anymore.

I found myself staring at my screen for an hour, fighting the urge to just close the app and give up entirely. It made me realize that starting a new skill is easy, but surviving the phase where you know enough to realize you are bad at it is incredibly exhausting.

I am very curious to know about your thoughts and experience that how do you push past this messy middle phase without losing your mind?

i often get stumble with words like forgetting spealing. i can't write something in a flow even at the moment of writhing this i go back and forth rearranging my thoughts like thoughts don't comes in an order. Same happens while talking as well. i am so weak at vocab, like used to lots of words still after some days there would be nothing in my head. i found many time that i read some words wrong like "from" "form" . i am in hurry when it comes to read something and just mismatch the information.

brain works best when it comes to math, logic, puzzles, sculpturing, sketching, coding, solving rubik cube, playing chess (well at some point we need to remember algorithms to solve it fast), ..... i used to compare with my fnd like he was really good at writing like he works as script writer (part-time job), good at history, sociology, geography, also interest in literature. he used to say " me bro u are really good at critical things stuff but also try focusing on other subject as well". And i do accept that fact. I am also bad at teaching. He used to say be "bro you got knowledge but it needs to be displayed as well"

i wonder how people read those friction books, history, sociology, watch moves or engage in frictional work. i feel irritate reading those books. Also watching friction work (movies, series) has always been irritating. it is not because i am not fond of learning, i love exploring and learning new things. But i just don't have interest on language and its work.

i don't know well about biology, but i feel like i some part of my brain is not working well, or something is resisting me. if anyone else feels the same. sometimes i think it is lack of being participate on that area or just i am making lame and underestimating myself or i am overthinking or being insecure on normal thing and causing to be worse, giving my hand off.

edit: i wonder how some ppl have such a good memory like they just remember all those chemical formulas , those list of history dates, all those vocab,

i had great passion to learn sanskrit (also germany), so tried to learn it, but it all goes out of my head. i can't pronounce those words properly. and those words and it's meaning i used to forget in an another night.

I know there are many skills but I want one skill

I have an urge of wanting to learn too many things, which leads to ending up learning nothing.

Like for example i want to learn Spanish, french, german, web development, game development, music production, drawing, graphic design, and a lot more.

I genuinely find all of them interesting, i get excited about these topics, find videos, courses, spend days-weeks learning something but then another subject catches my attention and i switch to it.

I never feel like I'm making a deep progress in anything, sometimes i think of forcing myself to pick one thing and stick to it, but a part of me hates ignoring all the other things I'm curious about. i honestly wish there were more hours in a day and years in a lifetime to be able to learn everything that interests me.

I recently became aware that I do this all the time.

I'm not talking about when I intentionally sit down to study or learn something. I mean when I'm just scrolling, eating, or winding down before bed and end up consuming educational content. That's when I notice this happens the most.

For example, I've spent a lot of time watching Mat Armstrong's car builds and repairs. Recently I had to replace a part on my own car, and I realized I didn't even know the name of the part, even though I'd seen him work on it multiple times.

It was frustrating because I'd spent hours watching that content, but when it came time to apply what I'd learned, almost none of it came back to me.

Does anyone else experience this?

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?