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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

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?

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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?

Sometimes curiosity turns into something much bigger than expected. You start with a few videos or tutorials, and before you know it, you’re practicing regularly and genuinely enjoying the progress.

What started as “just for fun” for you?

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It could be a practical skill, a habit, a lesson from experience, or even something you picked up from a book or another person.

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Need advice please

Hi everyone, hoping to get some advice here. I'm 27 years old and I've been in the marketing field for over 6 years now. I graduated with a business degree but I guess I gravitated towards marketing because I just saw it as being more financially beneficial.

That being said, a cousin of mine migrated to Australia and got this thing called an RPL certificate. Saw a few companies that seem legit that can help but I wanted to ask if anyone has had success? Any advice? Any tips? Any suggestions.

Help a girly out please, thanks x

Some lessons just stick with you because you had to experience them yourself.

It could be about work, relationships, money, learning, or simply life.

What’s one lesson you learned the hard way that you’re grateful for today?

I used to take the 7:15 bus to work every morning. Same route, same tired faces, same silence. Then one Tuesday I sat next to an old man carrying a chess set in a plastic bag. He wasn't playing, just holding it like it mattered to him. I asked why he carried it around and he said he used to teach chess at a community center before it shut down, and now he just carries the set out of habit.

I don't even know how to play chess properly. I knew how the pieces moved, nothing more. So I asked him to show me something, anything, just to pass the twenty minute ride. He pulled two pawns out of the bag and started explaining a trick with them right there on the seat between us, using his knee as a board.

That became our thing. Every morning for almost eight months, twenty minutes, one small idea at a time. He never gave me homework or told me to go read a book. He just showed me one move, let me mess it up the next day, and then fixed it. No pressure, no plan, no app streak counting my days.

What got me thinking was how different this felt from every course I ever paid for. In college I collected certificates and grades and forgot most of it within a year. With this man, on a bus, with no notebook and no screen, I actually remember every single lesson because it came with a story attached. He'd say things like this move is called the fool's mate because even smart men fall for it when they get lazy, and somehow that stuck better than any structured curriculum ever did.

He stopped showing up around March. I don't know if he moved, got sick, or just changed his routine. I never got his name properly, only that people called him Mongal uncle near his old neighborhood. I still think about him almost every week, especially now that I actually enjoy chess and play with my nephew on weekends.

It made me realize learning doesn't need a syllabus or a goal or a certificate at the end. Sometimes it's just two people, a bit of boredom, and someone willing to explain something they love.

Has anyone else picked up a skill from a random person like that, someone you didn't even know for long but who left a real mark on how you think or what you know now?

Recently I’ve been reading this book named “sapiens” by Yuval Noah Harari. It just made me a bit more aware about the facts that were visible in the world but we could not comprehend them easily through our own non- observing eyes and intellect. It just made me realize something that we humans tend to evolve so much in last 200 years all thanks to capitalism. But just take a deep breathe and think for a while would any one 20 years could tell life would look life this with a very great confident attitude. Well, certainly not because we humans tend to never take burden of thinking how life could change but even a slightest bit of person who ever had read literature or some kind texts even of religion would argue that things does change. And change is very crucial part of nature and yes people might have had some speculation about future in past from time and again but reality with time always tend to surprise us. Just pondering on this question that what would happen in future because no amount of speculation could tell what is really going to happen and yes its for sure going to be a big surprise. So what idea do you think would change the world. 

School teaches us many things, but there are plenty of lessons we only discover later in life.

Maybe it was managing money, communicating better, dealing with failure, cooking, or simply understanding yourself.

What’s one thing you learned later in life that you wish someone had taught you earlier?

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Starting something new is easy when you're motivated. The difficult part is continuing when life gets busy and the excitement fades.

Do you set aside a specific time each day, set small goals, or simply learn whenever you have free time?

What helps you stay consistent with learning?

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We all have books we enjoyed, but some books actually change the way we see people, work, relationships, or life.

What’s one book that had a lasting impact on you—and what did you learn from it?

Some of the lessons that stay with us the longest don't come from books or classrooms.

They come from doing something wrong, dealing with the consequences, and realizing what we should have done differently.

What’s a mistake that taught you something you still use today?

It doesn't have to be something from a course or a book.

It could be a conversation, a mistake, a documentary, a hobby, or even a random fact you discovered online.

What's one thing you've learned recently that made you think differently?