r/IWantToLearn

Every time i've tried it was pretty disgusting honestly lol. i use recipes with all the spices but somehow it's still bad!! If anyone has some go-to recipes pls lmk!!!

So, I know how to play Chess but the only problem is I usually end up being the one Checkmated. I can capture some pieces but I end up losing. I want to learn how to win and get really good at Chess.

Thinking about a YouTube note-taking tool where the AI doesn't write your notes — it makes it easier for you to write them. Pacing, prompts, gap-fills. Would anyone use this?

I know for me, writing out my notes helps me learn but the tools out there that summarize YouTube videos into notes are also very helpful. I'm trying to find a nice middle ground

I always was interested in learning language. I know around 5 languages now but now I want to learn russian.

Inorder to do so I started with duolingo and I know it's not the best site for this but anyways. I even had a streak of around 250 days. Because of it I know how to identify characters and can read some what russian. But the issue is I have read various words during the course but can't seem to remember those words and I can hardly form 2 to 3 simple sentences but I want to learn such that I can understand it properly and speak it fluently. Inorder to do so I started watching sites that show English sentences and a say those same sentences in russian but that doesn't seem to work much even though it's hardly few days. I know the general advice like watch russian movies or series and something like that but I don't find them anywhere. So is there anyone with similar experience and now knows russian properly or some one native who can guide me??

I’ve been living in the US for 8 years now, and while I think my English is pretty good, my accent still gives me away every time.

I’ve seen older posts asking something similar, but they’re years old so I figured I’d ask fresh. Is anyone here willing to practice with me or point me in the right direction?

Also genuinely curious — for someone living in America with daily exposure and consistent practice, how long does it realistically take to sound more natural?

Any tips, resources, or conversation partners welcome. Thanks in advance! 🙏

I don't fully understand what people mean when they say this is it just questioning everything or coming up with a solution.

How do I apply this in my life?

Essentially, I am looking for books, YouTube recommendations, etc., that give a conceptual framework on how to understand how the world works. I want to focus on a people-oriented perspective and not a nature-based one. I know this is a big ask, but I don't know where to get started. I guess one way to understand my interests is that I want to basically know how every job works together or how every industry works together to make human civilization function.

30M. I am sorry, this is totally an over-spammed thread. I have been left by a girl who turned out wanting a casual thing (she told me a bit later). And now I am trying to date more women to not let my emotional base being around one person. I don't care about body count or stuff like that, I just want to do exposive therapy, in order to be more confident in dating.

I have the baseline, i have a job, a car, I go to the gym, i am doing martial arts and reading books about self-improving.. But I am doing the 90% of this stuff in order to be chosen. As for now I asked out a girl working in a bar, but we never actually dated as we rescheduled everytime. I went out with another girl, but I smell "I was doing this for friendship" in the air. I noticed a girl in my gym, but I don't want to seem too much in asking her out or asking for her contacts as I don't know her, i just think she is good looking; and I know that in gym people don't like being annoyed in talk while they are training so I don't know what to do. But this is just an example.

I always see those YouTube videos like JLaser and hacksmith, where its someone making a superhero’s weapon or some type of gadgets and wanted to know how I myself could start doing stuff like that as a college student. I have a basic arduino r3 uno starter kit and am starting to learn electronics.I would like to expand my knowledge as I know it takes more then electronics to create gadgets and tinker .Any tips, ideas on what to study or focus on, or just general advice would be helpful.

It's weird. My life is full but yet I feel I have nothing to talk about. I was told my life was boring so I would like to know how to make my life interesting

My life at the moment:

- Working 9-5 Monday to Friday: I work for my mom and we are involved with one of the biggest projects in the world. My goal is to fix our systemic issues within the company and have my mom finally retire.

- Living with my family: Because I like being around my family.

- Hanging out with family: My family is dysfunctional and I want to repair it. I was the youngest in my family growing up so I didn’t really have the chance to take care of someone else but now I do (baby cousins). So I hangout with various family members about 4 times a week including going out.

-Going out: We go out about once a week. When we go out we go to museums, libraries, galleries, explore nature, hang out with animals, etc. Growing up I was (a) Sheltered (b) Encouraged to sideline my ethnicity and ancestral homeland. I never went out regularly before so going out now and connecting with my ancestral homeland through its nature, history, art, etc is really important to me.

- Caring for my sprained ankle

- Learning my heritage language: Again, I was encouraged to sideline my ethnicity and this resulted in me not being able to speak my heritage language. So learning this language brings me closer to who I actually am.

- Dieting to lose weight: Diabetes runs in the family

- Growing out my hair: In my culture, there is a saying that goes “your hair is your pride”. Also, I feel a lot of peer pressure to add extensions to my hair so I am going out of my way to grow my hair and make a personal rule to NOT do that in order to fight this pressure.

- Taking care of my skin: Having nice skin is nice.

- Calling and texting various friends almost every day.

- Basic chores aside from that

I do not:

- Drink (uncommon for my age in my country)

- Consume international media (extremely uncommon for my age in my country)

- Partake in organised religion (EXTREMELY uncommon for my age in my country)

- Have friends in my city (they all moved out). I plan on making more but I feel there are some things I need to deal with family-wise first before I start expanding my social life.

I never run out of things to do and life is quite nice. But I don't like talking about work because I believe work should remain at work. I don't like talking about my other goals either because I feel like if I talk about them too much I can overthink, get upset that I haven't reached my goals yet, etc. I have found that it is best that I don't talk about them so I don't my feel consumed by such thoughts of the future. All my goals require that I stick to one disciplined monotonous routine or the other and there is only so much to talk about. Also, I don't talk about my goals because I don't believe they should define me. So then what do I talk about??? I was told that my life is quite boring so I would like to know what I can do to make it NOT boring.

Not for anything specific, just for fun. I have a friend that lives in Italy though, and this one time she was sharing her screen, going through people’s stories while we were on call, and I tried to translate a long one and read it aloud for her, but she said it couldn’t really be translated correctly. It’s a pretty language idk.

What’s the best way to get started? Preferably for free.

hey everyone / i'm looking to build my first ever website using wix but i'm a total beginner and honestly have no idea what i'm doing yet / i don't even have a solid plan for what the site will be about but i really want to learn how to use the wix ai helper to get things moving

would anyone be willing to walk me through the process from start to finish / just looking for some guidance on how to set it up and make the most of the tools wix has

any tips or help would be massively appreciated

I want to gather more knowledge about firearms

I have been trying to learn programming for a while now but my progress has never felt stable. Every time I start, I feel motivated in the beginning. I pick up beginner tutorials, follow along step by step, and everything seems clear while I am watching. It gives me the feeling that I am finally understanding it.

The problem starts when I try to do anything on my own. As soon as I close the tutorial and try to build something small without guidance I completely lose direction. I do not know what to start with how to connect the ideas or how to break a problem into steps. That is usually the point where I get frustrated and stop for a while.

After a break I come back and repeat the same cycle again. I watch more videos try different playlists and hope that something will click but it always ends up the same way. I can follow instructions, but I cannot seem to move from copying to actually understanding and building.

Now I want to change that approach completely. I do not want to just collect more tutorials or switch between resources anymore. I want to actually learn how to think like someone who can build small projects from scratch and gradually improve over time. I want to understand what a real beginner path looks like when done properly and how people stay consistent long enough to actually get good at it.

IWTL how to structure my learning so I stop getting stuck in this loop and finally start making real progress in coding.

heyy, im in grade school and not very bright.

i have a B+ in one class and low As in the rest.

all of my friends are so talented and smart. like for example I once studied for like a week for a test and got an 88 and my friend who didn’t study at all got a 100.

I don’t care about how many people tell me that I have ”good grades“. i do not have good grades.

if you have any help, PLEASE SHARE. I need it.

(Also, I’m sorry if this ‘offends’ some people, I’ve told lots of people I have really bad grades and they get offended when I tell them my grades?? idk why but I’m really sorry if I did!!!)

Hey everyone,

I want to start a business of my own, but the biggest thing holding me back is that I don’t know how to do proper market/business research. I often get business ideas, but then I don’t know how to evaluate them properly, so I end up doing nothing. I want to learn how to research a business idea from scratch, including things like:

1. Understanding how the business works overall
2. What all is required to start it (licenses, setup, operations, etc.)
3. How much capital might be needed
4. Whether there is actual demand in the market
5. Who the target customers are
6. Competition and market size
7. Growth potential and scalability
8. Whether there is export potential, and how difficult exporting would be
9. Government schemes/incentives available for that business
10. Any other important factors to evaluate before starting

Basically, I want to build a skill/framework so that whenever I get a business idea, I can research it properly and decide whether it’s worth pursuing. Are there any books, courses, YouTube channels, or personal methods that helped you learn this? I’d really appreciate any advice or resources.

I’ve realized that whenever I start learning something new, motivation carries me for the first few days, but once that excitement fades, it becomes much harder to stay consistent. Even things I genuinely want to improve at slowly get pushed aside when progress feels slower or less exciting than the beginning.

I think I rely too much on “feeling motivated” instead of building actual habits or routines around learning. The problem is that motivation changes constantly, so my consistency changes with it too.

I want to learn how people continue improving at skills even on days when they don’t feel especially motivated or inspired to do it.

For those who successfully learned something long term, what helped you stay consistent after the initial excitement disappeared?

I’ve noticed that I can understand topics while studying and feel like I’ve learned them properly, but after a few days most of it just fades away. It feels like I’m constantly revising the same things again and again instead of actually retaining them long-term.

I think part of the issue is that I focus more on reading and reviewing notes instead of actively testing myself or using what I learn in a more practical way.

I want to build a study approach where information actually sticks instead of disappearing after a short time, especially when preparing for exams or learning new skills.

For people who are good at retaining what they study, what methods actually helped you remember things long term?

I usually spend most of my days in this life 'alone', I stopped forcing interactions with others, and I don't reach out to any of my 'friends', I've accepted that I'm gonna be alone forever, but sometimes it gets overwhelming, I don't know how to handle living my entire life 'alone', and sometimes being alone for too long gets me distracted from reaching my goals in life, and I don't end up doing anything.