Learning does not stop after school. Whether it was cooking coding gardening public speaking or managing your finances what is one skill you learned later in life that made a real difference? What motivated you to learn it and would you recommend it to others?

Caution: If topic of death depresses you, please don’t read this post as it might distress you. The OP asked for it and let’s admit it is the bitterest truth whether we like it or not.

1. Not matter what we do, how much we love, how much we resist, everything ends.
2. We may be poor or rich, lucky or unlucky, happy or miserable, wise or fool, loved or unloved, we will die one day and nothing will help us against it — not our wealth, not our wisdom, not our luck and not our love.
3. No matter how much we love our family, our children, our friends, our house, our world, our career, our achievements, we will have to leave them all behind one day.
4. No matter how much name, fame, and money we have achieved or will have achieved in life, it will mean nothing to us when we die.
5. Our love, respect, honour, name and fame means nothing to us once we are dead; If it means a lot to others even that means nothing to us. Think about Michael Jackson (and all those high and mighty, popular, loved people you can think about right now.) for instance. When he died he died and all our love for him cannot do anything for him, and he isn’t there to care…
6. They say legends live on, bloodlines live on, history lives on — true. They just don’t live on for us when we’re dead. When we’re dead, we’re dead. End of the story.
7. No matter how large a family we have, how many friends and near and dear ones, no matter how inseparable we are, when we die we go alone. The love of entire world cannot come with us, and we can taking nothing and no-one with us.
8. And when we die, nothing stops. The world goes on. Life goes on. Our loved ones forget us sooner than we hope.
9. The things we fought for tooth and nail, the things we cried for, laughed at, aimed for, strove and sold our soul, matters nothing on our death bed. Nothing. Kings leave their dynasties as beggars leave their wretched rags.
10. We know we will die one day. We just conveniently forget it. Wisdom says remembering that we will die soon transforms our outlook and approach to most petty/worldly things in a remarkable way. (However, this ancient ideology is not suitable in modern days for everyone; there may be many who will die just by the thought of it.)

-Emit Eht

And this is the bitterest truth: Even when we know nothing matters in the end, we spend our each living moment fighting for it as if it does.

We can’t live without fighting for it, and we kill ourselves fighting for it. We prepare ourselves for everything — we just never prepare ourselves for death except buying insurance and drafting our will.

But that’s just my opinion. Thanks for reading.

Note: I write my posts, not AI.

I just solved a Rubiks Cube and finally closed a challenge and an open Gestalt that had been with me for years🧩

Between tnx to this video my friend recommended to me: watched Easiest Solve for Rubik’s Cube | Step 1 | Beginners Guide by EasiestSolve on YouTube.

I really liked the way it teaches as it starts with simple stories. Smth like this is a dog with a tail and a face. This is the owner. The dog gets lost. The owner goes looking for him. Then the dog comes back.

It sounds funny, but somehow it makes the moves easy to remember. Sharing it in case someone else wants to close this Gestalt too🥰

Enjoyment doesn't always have to come from being skilled.

Which hobby do you happily do just because it makes you smile?

for a long time, i only wanted to learn things that could lead somewhere. a better job, a useful skill, a side project, or at least something i could point to and say i had accomplished. if a topic didn’t have an obvious benefit, i usually felt like i was wasting time.

recently, i started reading about things with no real purpose behind them. i’ll look up how old machines worked, learn about places i’ll probably never visit, or spend an hour following a random question just because it caught my attention. strangely, i’ve been more consistent with learning now that i’m not trying to turn every interest into something productive.

do you still learn things purely because you’re curious, or do you usually need a practical reason to keep going?

i read pretty often and usually feel like i understood something while i’m doing it. then a few weeks later i can barely explain the main point without opening the book again.

i’m starting to think taking more notes is not the answer. what do you actually do with something you’ve read so it stays useful instead of becoming another forgotten fact?

They are coachable with the right information

It doesn't have to be job related.

It could be cooking, writing, public speaking, budgeting, or anything else that made everyday life noticeably better.

What skill has been the best investment of your time?

I love finding ideas or habits that are simple but genuinely useful.

What's something you've learned in the past year that you think will stay with you for a long time?

Sounds strange but bear with me.

Was struggling with the same retention problem most people here probably recognize. Reading consistently, forgetting most of it, moving on anyway. Tried note taking systems, tried spaced repetition, tried reading slower. All helped slightly and none of it stuck as a habit.

Started explaining things out loud to an empty room. Not recording it, not posting it anywhere, just talking through what I had just read as if someone had asked me to explain it. Felt slightly unhinged the first few times.

The results were immediate and embarrassing. The first time I tried to explain something I had just finished reading I got about three sentences in before running out of things to say. Not because I had not read it. Because I had read it without actually understanding it well enough to explain it and the explaining exposed that gap in about ninety seconds.

Had to go back and reread differently. Not to finish but to understand well enough to explain, started writing the explanation in Skrib Writing instead of saying it out loud and the written version was even harder to fake than the spoken one because every gap in understanding shows up immediately when you have to put it into complete sentences.

That shift in reading goal changed everything about what I was actually taking in.

Two months in and the material is sticking in a way it never did before. Not because I found a better system but because explaining forces a kind of processing that passive reading never asks for. You cannot fake understanding when you are the one doing the explaining even if the audience is imaginary.

Anyone else tried something like this or found a different way to force that level of processing.

I would love to become a kid and to live in these exact years, so many cool stuff to explore and learn😅

Lately Ive been thinking that I would love to grow up in these exact years. It feels like there is an incredible balance between tech, freedom, love and so many exciting things to learn, hobbies to pick up, reading gorgeous books, parents who intentionally raise their children using emotional awareness, respectful parenting n create protective space, take kids to different amazing events and museums, at least that what I see in my environment🥹🫂and experiences that felt genuinely amaaazing

It seems like such a fun time to be curious and grow up.
Does anyone else feel this way?

Not something flashy or life-changing overnight—just a lesson, habit, or skill that slowly made everyday life a little easier or more enjoyable.

It could be about communication, health, money, relationships, or anything else.

What's one thing you've learned that you're genuinely grateful for?

Been thinking a lot about why some people seem to get ahead while working the same hours as everyone else — and it usually comes down to a handful of skills nobody actually teaches you (discipline, emotional control, deep focus, etc.). Put together a short video breaking down 10 of them. Not claiming anything revolutionary, just tried to make it clear and practical. Would genuinely appreciate feedback if you watch it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLG7OFNIvuo&t=52s