What are ways to become more articulate and fluent in speaking? like i wanna learn new words? I have been using dictionaries like Merriam Webster and reading but i have been in a reading slump :(. are there any games on the app store or maybe flashcards?
Weird that I buy lot of stuff but have a hard time using it because Im always saving it for a perfect future moment… small example last week I bought a cute keychain and today it took all the strength in the universe to put it on my bag.. like my day was filled with anxiety rather it giving me some dopamine I was afraid it would get ruined.. like we live in fast fashion mass production world its not like I cannot buy it again if it gets lost but still I get worried.. whats the point of buying stuff if Im not gonna be using it and keeping as decor. I know all the all hard facts like if I die tomorrow without using it then I have missed out waiting for that special occasion to arrive.. if more time passes the harder it becomes for me to use it I have clothes with brand new tags on from 15 years ago…. And at this point it would physically make me sick to use them
Hey everyone, I’m looking for high-density quick resources to self-teach upper-level academic subjects.
For background, I have a degree in CS and in medicine, and I'm currently working as a SWE at Google. I'm a relatively very fast learner and grasp complex technical concepts easily — but between work and a baby at home, I don't have the bandwidth to watch 40 hours of introductory lectures on MIT OCW or sit through a Coursera track. I'm looking to dive quickly into the deep end of a few areas for fun:
- physics: Classical/quantum mechanics, thermodynamics.
- mechanical Engineering: Statics, dynamics, fluid mechanics.
- Economics: Micro/macro fundamentals, game theory.
What are the best accelerated frameworks, core textbooks, or curated reading lists that get right to the underlying mechanics and derivations without the slow pacing of a traditional academia?
Thanks!
I just bought a math book, but I’m not going to do math in college so I want to learn some university level math for fun, as well as languages and literature. How can I study faster or more efficiently? having no method was fine when the goal was easy and set by others: studying for a test. But now I study to master stuff while no one will grade me on it and therefore what I want is to study effectively, not just to pass a test but to master the subject
I have a lot of goals in high school, one of them studying ahead of what I already have and being informed on a lot of subjects, including sciences, math, psychology, the human body, sociology, etc. I made a whole cirriculum but it's loaded, and i feel burnt out from looking at it! I really do want to get smarter, as it will be good for me, yet I genuinely dont know how to approach this and I thought i could finish all of it during summer but obviously i cant.
More specifically, I currently use AI tools like ChatGPT to help with search terms to then create Boolean search strings, Research Rabbit to help create research maps of the current field and to help find relevant articles, Consensus to help find papers I otherwise would have missed, and Google Scholar Labs sometimes to help find papers within Google Scholar that I might have missed with all of these other AI assistants. Do you guys have any other tools and/or where that I could utilize the ones I am already using to help me on my research journey?
For those who loves doing note taking (digital or paper and pen). I wanna know how do y'all make your notes proficient that you can understand what you write and you can memorize it on your own pace.
Do y'all use notetaking methods? do y'all shorten your words (like with -> w/ , and -> & , etc.) or sentences that you only can understand? do you highlight the words?
what is the best way to take a notes from a textbook, online videos, or lectures. what advice do y'all have.
Hey. To give some context, I have a diagnosed low IQ of 79 and I learn very slowly. I typically struggle with various practices such as intellectual/critical thinking. This ranges from not being able to critically analyze situations, may they be social/intellectual discussions or day to day life, to barely having the ability to have a deeper understanding on any topic, even if it‘s one of my hyperfixations.
I also should say I struggle a lot with white and black thinking because of my low intellect, and struggle with self-reflections and self-awareness. I only know I have a low IQ because I got told.
I don’t like cheese or bread and it affects my social life. This means that I don’t eat sandwiches, burgers, or the main reason for this post, pizza. Sometimes I like thin crust pizza if it’s cooked in a specific way but it’s really inconsistent and when it’s wrong, I barely tolerate it.
I live in Canada so the stereotypical safe social foods are pizza, Mac n cheese, casseroles, and charcuterie boards with bread and buns. I hate all of these to varying degrees so I feel like a freak of nature a lot of time. When I’m invited over somewhere, I usually eat a lot of fruits and vegetables, and then I fight with my gag reflex to eat whatever the main course is (usually some variation of the aforementioned foods). Apparently I once liked cheese and pizza when I was really little, but sometime when I was a toddler I developed my hatred for the stuff.
I like Asian food, and I feel like I’m open minded when it comes to trying new things. It’s really just the combination of really disliking these staples, and wanting to go out with people who like this stuff that makes it such a problem.
I’m really sick of feeling stressed about food every time I get together with someone. I don’t want to emotionally prepare to eat something I hate so that I can be polite or enable a simple and straightforward visit. I imagine if I can learn how to like cheese and bread, not only will I be able to get rid of all this stress and discomfort, but I’ll also have better social interactions. I don’t even know if it’s possible to learn how to like a food, but if anyone has any ideas I’d love to hear them.
So, TLDR: I hate cheese and bread (but especially cheese) but they’re social gathering staples so I’m always dealing with food related stress because I’m either avoiding eating these foods, or I have to force myself to eat them. IWTL how to enjoy eating food I hate.
I know a lot of smart people who speak very well and explain complex concepts easilt. How do i reach that?
I wanna learn how to speak english so well and dissect arguments. tbink properly.
I want to learn how to become smarter, Im 14, and I genuinely want to become smarter, but I feel like no matter how hard I try, I just don’t understand things, especially math.
I’ve struggled with math for years. A family member has spent hours, days, and even months trying to teach me, but I still don’t understand a lot of basic concepts, like adding positive and negative numbers. I’ve watched videos, practiced, and asked for help, but it still doesn’t click. I ended up failing math, and someone in my family told me I should’ve been placed in a lower class because I didn’t understand the basics. The thing is, I was already in the lowest math class.
It’s not just math either. I have a really hard time focusing. People constantly tell me I don’t listen, that I’m distracted, or that I’m “slow.” everyone tells me I am slow even the smartest people I know.
I really want to become more intelligent because I enjoy creative things. I draw, animate, and make stories, and I want to be able to write smart characters and come up with better ideas. I read a lot too I finished The Maze Runner series and the sequels but I don’t really feel smarter afterward. just enjoyed a really good story but I just wanna be smarter. I wanna get smarter so I can get better at things like making intelligent characters, choices, and more creative.
Sometimes I get really motivated to learn something new, but I either don’t understand it or I get distracted before I make much progress.
Science is another example. I actually find it interesting, so I tried much harder than I usually do, but I still struggled to understand what we were learning. My final grade ended up being around a C or D. Earlier in the year I had an A, but honestly that was because I copied answers or used AI when I didn’t understand the work. I know that wasn’t helping me learn, and I don’t want to keep relying on it.
There have been multiple times where I’ve gotten so frustrated trying to understand schoolwork that I’ve cried. Sometimes family members would end up doing the work for me because I just couldn’t figure it out, even after they explained it.
I’ve also had tutoring before, but it didn’t seem to help much. In social studies class it was no different I just would not understand a thing. This year in ELA everyone understood everything about what we were learning, I didn’t understand the references, wording, anything going on even if I tried. Then I got called disrespectful by everyone and no one wanted to talk to me because I said I don’t understand and stuff I still don’t really understand what was happening and people said I was disgusting for not ‘trying’ and that its disrespectful to people who died for it. To the point I lost friends because of it.
Something confusing is that my reading and listening scores have always been strong according to my school assessments. My ELA score was considered advanced, but my math score was either approaching or low. So it feels like I’m capable in some areas but completely lost in others. Although I struggled in ELA and often used Ai, but mostly I didn’t because I wanted to improve but I just didn’t understand.
Looking back, I also had a lot of behavior problems in elementary school. I didn’t do my work, got distracted constantly, joked around, and sometimes even refused assignments to the point I would rip up my own papers. I don’t know if that affected how I learn now or if it’s unrelated.
at home, I mostly spend my time drawing, animating, tweening, and doing other creative hobbies. (and going on ai making them make my stories but I am currently trying to stop that because it ruined my creativity.) I enjoy them a lot, but I just wanna become smarter. I often get compared to a wild animal because I make no sense.
These past few days, I've been finding more and more ways to check my phone and doomscroll at any chance I get.
My mind always feels hazy after, and it has affected my attention span to the point that I find it difficult to concentrate on tasks such as journaling or reading books.
I feel like my brain is always on the move to do something else that is easier and gives more "excitement." I find myself giving up easily on continuing with tasks that are "boring" or offer the slightest resistance. I can't even go on a walk or sit in silence without any video or music playing.
I think all of this stems from a habit of avoiding boredom. My mind feels uncomfortable when its not constantly playing something and I want to be able to accept this discomfort. I also think that if I learn to be bored again, I can have a better attention span and have more space to think creatively.
Do you guys have any advice on what I can do to learn to better accept or tolerate boredom? Thank you!
I want to learn it for: fitness reasons, self defense reasons and self esteem issues. I’m also tired of getting my ass kicked by the local ghouls.
The more I use YouTube, Instagram and Reddit, the more I feel like algorithms decide what I think about. IWTL how to intentionally discover different viewpoints instead of just consuming what gets recommended to me
I want to learn something but I don't know what.
Some criteria:
-Shouldn't be very expensive
-Should provide some value to my life, not be completely useless
-Great if it improves life quality
-Should take a few days to a year to learn
-Shouldn't be very physically strenuous
-Shouldn't be gimmicky
-Shouldn't expand too much energy in one go because I'm anemic and energy is sparse
-It can be a life skill too
I feel bored and overstimulated by news and social media. I want some mental stimulation to avoid just passively listening to or watching something. Hearing people talking, music and sound effects has become really annoying. When I say mental stimulation I mean using my brain or enjoying some experience.
Some things I already do are diy, simple video editing for a small channel, learning Chinese for the last 3 months, started making food that has more than 3 ingredients (I hate cooking) and I planted a lot if flowers and some veg in my yard. Planting stuff has had such a positive effect on my mood. Watching things sprout and grow was a lot of fun but now they are growing and not blooming yet. It's boring to just water them.
Do you have any suggestions for me?
Hello!!! Before I begin, please don’t tell me to “go do research”; I already am! I just graduated from high school, and whilst I was preparing for my uni exam I was trying to find details on how to learn Chinese and did find many posts and videos about it useful, but they were very technical so I did feel confused whilst trying to keep everything in mind. This is my first time attempting to learn an East Asian language and I want to really make sure I’m prepared to the best of my abilities. Learning a language isn’t easy, especially when you have little to no familiarity with it. I know some redditors see these help posts like spam, but I’m sorry I need help. I certainly wouldn’t be writing this if I was dead sure, I don’t have any ill intention. So before you downvote me for being amateur, please keep this in mind!!!
Little side note: I’m definitely not trying to get a language certificate. Therefore I don’t want to learn strictly by book!!!
Little side note #2: As for my language background: Turkish (mother tongue), French, English, German
I really need your guys’ opinions and advice on learning grammar, vocabulary and Simplified Chinese.
Grammar - Since I have strictly learned European languages, Mandarin grammar is going to be really different from what I know. I would really appreciate any media you feel is beginner friendly. Grammar books, videos, playlists all really appreciated. If you guys know anything that would help westeners grasp Mandarin grammar more pleaseeee mention it in the comments!
Vocabulary - When I was learning languages, this is the part I had the most problems with. I will try journaling and watching videos in that language like I did before. But I really need your guys’ experiences and advice also! I know Chinese drama shows are very popular for young Chinese learners. Do you guys have any recommendations on top? Especially specific recommendations? (Writing some stuff here for inspiration: YT/bilibili channels, game shows, films, shows, books, blogs, news outlets, social networking apps, language exchange apps…)
Simplified Chinese - OK so this section was the one that I really struggled finding tips for. Probably since it is really hard, but everyone seems to have their own way of learning Chinese characters. Like, I saw one dude say he practices on paper, some other person on yt says he uses anki, some guy said notion etc.. Well what do you guys recommend?
I encourage everyone who has the time to give their advice or complaints about learning Mandarin. Even a few words could be useful to someone. I remember jumping through website after website trying to find anything that could help me prepare. Thank you for reading through! I hope you have a nice day!!!
Recently I had to attend a social event right after I cried. I had stopped crying by then, but my eyes were bloodshot, my nose was red, my face was all puffy, tears kept welling up and I kept hiccupping. Fortunately the night didn't get any worse as my glasses hid my eyes and I wore a mask except when I ate, and it was busy enough that no one stopped by to talk to me. However, I still spent the whole time trying to stiffle hiccups and avoiding any contact. I tried washing my face with cold water beforehand, but it didn't help much. Breathing exercises did help me slow down a bit but it did not help with my puffy eyes and blocked nose.
I know crying is healthy and normal, and I wasn't raised with the "crying is weak" thing. I just want to know something to do in case you need to look alright and socialise (more specifically, going to the bathroom or somewhere to let it calm down a bit is kinda not an option), because I don't want to draw attention or make people talk. An emergency hack, if you will.
I can follow recipes, but I want to start learning how to make my own recipes/personalize recipes. I want to learn the science of baking instead of just following recipes
How do you know when people are lying, I feel like I am really gullible and that's why I get betrayed/lied to most of the times, is there any specific technique or body language to guess if someone is lying?
how do i become like marcin plaza on youtube who makes his own stuff like repairing monitors and making his own phone? is there like free resources for that? i have no money btw
how do i become techy and be like him who can just build stuff and repair stuff?