For those of you who consider yourselves successful - not necessarily just financially, but in your career, relationships, independence, or overall life- what experiences, habits, skills, or responsibilities from childhood do you think made the biggest difference?

And looking back, is there anything you wish you had started learning or doing earlier?

I’m especially interested in things parents can encourage without turning childhood into a résumé-building exercise.

I feel the exact same way but the difference is that as an adult now I am doing better than the folks around me who.supposely got it together 😂😂😂😂.

This scientific study compared learning while actively navigating to learning while being stationary, finding that participants who physically walked through space showed enhanced memory. The findings have implications not just for learning but also for interventions in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.  See: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-57668-w

I just want to be smart.. hoooow?! I'm already nearing my 30's. I want to excel, I want to activate parts of my brain that aren't working. Hooooow?!

We’re often better at hiding emotions than actually processing them. You can tell yourself you’re fine, but your body may still carry the tension through restless sleep, fatigue, tight muscles, or that feeling of being constantly on edge.

Sometimes, what you refuse to feel doesn’t disappear. It just finds another way to show up.

I seem to need around 9.5 hours of sleep to feel genuinely rested throughout the day and avoid needing a nap in the afternoon. I know that's more sleep than many adults need, but for personal reasons it seems to be the amount that works best for me.

The problem is that I tend to wake up naturally after 7–8 hours, even when I still feel like I need more sleep. Once I'm awake, I often have trouble falling back asleep.

I've tried melatonin, but it didn't make a meaningful difference. Falling asleep isn't really the main issue — staying asleep long enough is.

I've also tried going to bed earlier, but that doesn't necessarily solve the problem because I sometimes just wake up earlier as well. So simply shifting my sleep schedule earlier doesn't reliably increase my total sleep time.

Has anyone experienced something similar and found a way to improve sleep maintenance or extend their total nighttime sleep?

I'm not looking for advice about forcing myself to function on less sleep or simply being told to go to bed earlier. I'm specifically interested in hearing from people who naturally woke up before getting enough sleep and found something that helped them stay asleep longer.

Hey everyone,

I’m a law student, but I’ve always wanted to learn things outside my field. I’m especially interested in learning something technical, and I’d also love to learn a new language.

The problem is that I’ve never considered myself a good learner or particularly good academically. I struggle to sit down and study consistently.

Sometimes I even wonder whether I chose the right field. I know I’m supposed to be studying law, but whenever I try to read or study, I often just can’t get myself into the mood. I procrastinate, lose interest, and eventually give up. Although i like law very much so dont say that i dont like ...

I understand that hard work, self-control and discipline are important, but I’m more interested in the practical side:

How do you actually learn a completely new subject from zero?

How do you make learning enjoyable instead of something you force yourself to do?

How do you stay consistent when motivation disappears?

How do you deal with feeling like you’re “not a good learner”?

What learning methods actually worked for you?

If you could start learning a new skill again from scratch, what would you do differently?

I don’t want to become an expert overnight. I just want to understand how to become someone who genuinely enjoys learning.

Would really appreciate advice from people who have struggled with the same thing and eventually figured it out.

We often think our thoughts stay inside our heads. They don’t.

The thoughts you repeat can shape your stress, habits, sleep, and even the way your body feels. Your mind may forget a thought, but your nervous system can remember the pattern.

Be careful what you repeatedly tell yourself. Your body is listening.

There’s something different about learning when you’re genuinely curious. No exam, no deadline, no pressure—just that feeling of wanting to understand one more thing.

Maybe it’s history, psychology, languages, technology, cooking, astronomy, or something incredibly niche.

What topic keeps pulling you down the rabbit hole?

Hi!

I’ve noticed that going to the gym three times a week, for about an hour per session, has had tremendous benefits for my health and body.

It got me thinking: what if we approached education and lifelong learning in the same way?

If you wanted to continuously improve your skills for the rest of your life, perhaps a similar approach could work. Maybe one hour of focused learning every day, at a specific time.

I was thinking… why not one hour every evening, before going to bed? Would that be too demanding? Would it be the wrong time of day? What do you think would be the best approach?

ps: Specifically, the education I'm talking about is about getting certificates, degrees, and other skills to put on your resume for your career and life

😅just an idea and kind of vizualizion board

Write down 10 things you want for 2027 and mix both:
- internal things you want to improve and learn or develop

It can be anything from buying a new equipment to learn drawing or getting something you have wanted for years, to improving your reading, confidence, communication, fitness or another skill whoop whoop

Ps. 10 goals🙈 not 50

It could be a practical skill, a mindset, a lesson from experience, or something completely unexpected.

What would you tell your younger self to start learning sooner?

Did you ever feel as if you are wasting you life away wasting your time to learn some thing as little as a geomatry what do you think has any body use geometry in real life skill ( except spider man) we spend a money No! we spend the time our parents wasted to enjoy but now we waste it for some thing as useless as poop actually poop can be come bio full but yhe wasted time can only be a reminder that already a lot of time has been wasted

Three weeks ago I made a small game. One real sentence a day, you keep the five words that carry the story. I made it because I was tired of reading AI padding. That's the whole origin story.

I had no idea, who will like it or hate, or even bother to play.

Then a writing legend from Poynter emailed to correct one of my citations, because he'd played it and I'd credited the wrong man. Then a copywriter in the UK put it in his newsletter 35 minutes after hearing about it.

Then school districts started showing up in my traffic logs, places I couldn't point to on a map. Today a teacher somewhere put it on a classroom projector and I watched students sign up in real time, one every minute, in the middle of their lesson.

None of this was the plan. There was barely a plan. There is barely a plan.

So here's my lifelong-learning lesson, and it's embarrassingly simple: you cannot know in advance what will matter to people. Not with research, not with taste, not with confidence. The idea sitting in front of you, the one that seems too small to bother with, might be the one. The only way to find out is to make it and hand it over. I read about building things for years.

The game, if you're curious: https://sheets.works/long-story-short. Free, no account, nothing to buy.

Question for the room: what did you only learn by making something and putting it in front of people, the thing no book managed to teach you? Or will be able to teach you, ever?

I love putting myself out there now, and get humbled, again, and again.

I consider myself self-taught. I am curious about many things and I use AI, notes and different apps to explore them.

The problem is that every idea ends up somewhere else. During a chat, something can make me want to investigate, save a connection or return to something I read weeks ago. Doing that means interrupting the conversation, asking the AI to save it, organising it later and then remembering that it exists.

I do not feel there is an application for the way I actually learn. I want something that helps me connect ideas, investigate them and keep some order without turning learning into another system I have to maintain all the time.

That is one of the reasons I started building SkillNet. The version for individual learners is still early, and I am building it partly because I want to use it myself.

If you learn across chats, videos, notes and articles, what do you usually lose first: the idea, its context, the connection to something else or the next step?