#LEARNING SKILLS

[furiousgoldfish]

I didn't see this right away, but my parents refusing to teach me anything really got to me, and not only in the way of lacking survival skills. I was being told things like 'how old are you not to know this' and 'you should know this by now' constantly, but nobody ever took the time or patience to explain or demonstrate to me how anything works. I had school education, so I was able to absorb information, but that was still, me being one of the 20+ children sitting down, with one adult who spent more time trying to keep us disciplined and quiet, than managing to explain anything. If I didn't get anything, I was too afraid to ask. I was being told I was stupid on a daily basis anyway.

My parents insisted that I was too stupid to get anything, too clumsy and ignorant and incapable, so it wasn't worth trying to teach me anything, it was a waste of energy. I was supposed to absorb knowledge by looking at what they're doing, but they would often give me other tasks to do, I wasn't free to observe. I believed that I was specifically dumb and incapable, and this was the only reason why I didn't have any skills. I actually believed that I was clumsy, stupid, incapable of doing anything correctly. I didn't think I was worth teaching, worth mentoring.

There was one time I was in my friend's house, and there was a guitar. I touched it, fascinated, since I've never had the chance to touch one before. My friend's father saw my interest, and offered to show me how to play. I was flabbergasted. He showed me how to hold it, how to press my fingers on the strings to create different chords, how to make sound happen. It took maybe 20 minutes. But it was the first time an adult showed me how something worked, and I felt.. unworthy. I didn't understand how could I deserve so much of someone's time and patience, because it had never happened before. I couldn't retain the knowledge, because that was the last time I ever touched a guitar, I never got the chance again. I still feel indebted for that 20 minutes, it feels like too much spent on me.

I thought back to those moments a lot, thinking about how special I felt for an adult to believe that I was worth teaching. If someone gave me a guitar now, I'd be ecstatic to try and learn it, because I remember that someone thought I could, someone showed me how. All of the other skills, I had to learn while already thinking I would fail, that I couldn't do it, and had to deal with extensive negative mindset before even trying to start. There is no skill that one can do perfectly on the first time, we all start by being awful, and then slowly get better with practice. But, with the 'I fail at everything and even if I try it will go bad' mindset, the awful start feels like a confirmation that we cannot do this, that we're too incapable, or stupid, or lacking in talent. Since all my work was heavily criticized no matter how well I've done, I had to go back and figure out what things I actually do okay, and criticism was unwarranted, and where I've actually been lacking in knowledge. And that is a complicated thing to do, when all of the criticism feels so painful, and even trying to do something makes you hear the words of ridicule, degradation and berating in your head. It makes you want to go the route of perfectionism, to try and do things so well they would be above criticism in general, but that's impossible. Criticism we receive in abuse is not actual criticism, it's often directed at us only to hurt our feelings, to discourage us, mock us, make us feel inadequate, sometimes even out of jealousy or because our capabilities present a threat, so they need to run that down. But how would we know? If all feedback is negative, it's impossible for us to sort trough what is a confirmation of being awful, and what is a jealous remark created to sabotage our good work.

Sometimes it feels bad learning everything on my own. Finding online tutorials and youtube videos for every skill imaginable, sifting trough forums to find information on finances and economy, trying to put together how society works by analyzing how people live and not daring to ask them to explain how they got where they are now. I had no guidance, and sometimes things would be too complicated, and I would give up. I often wish I could ask someone to explain it to me, instead of typing questions into google. The information is stored differently when it comes from a human, it creates warmth and the knowledge that someone cared enough to explain it to me, that I didn't have to put it together from various sources myself.

Learning basic survival and life skills was unnecessarily painful for me. I still have things I cannot do, just because of how much pain is associated with them. But to think everything could have been as simple as that guitar! If every time I showed interest in something, an adult who knew how it worked sat down next to me, demonstrated it, gave it to me to hold, put my hands in the right places, and directed me to what I should do. Would I ever have trouble believing in myself? It wouldn't have crossed my mind that there's anything I can't do. Or that I would fundamentally be bad at anything, just because I'm bad at it on the first attempt. When you're a kid, you don't even know if you're doing good or bad, if your first attempt gets a 'good job!', you're incentivized to do it again, until you do get good at it. That's why we encourage children, not to lie to them, but because we know how painful it is to be told off on your first try, and that it will make the second try unlikely.

Today I understand that all skills are gained trough practice, and that I can pick and choose what skills I want, and I can get them with enough practice. I can and do give up on some that are too frustrating, and that's okay too, we are all more inclined towards some activities, while others feel bad even with improvement.

As a kid I was enveloped by fear of not being able to do anything, not being useful enough to be kept alive, never being good at anything, not finding any kind of place in the world, just because I can't do anything right. All of that fear was necessary, there's tons of stuff that anyone can do, with some more complicated stuff that one needs to be specialized in, but it's not necessary for survival, or even for earning a place in society. We all have a place, by birthright, and just having skills is not as important as with what purpose you're using them for. You can be extremely skilled and using those skills to exploit, destroy and do damage to society, or even to isolate some members of society who you can then hurt. Or you can have very few skills but be insistent on using what you do only to help those around you be safe and sound.

[starryselenaria]

These are some sketches & basic drawings of several of my pet rats from years ago - some had different ears and/or different types of fur. It’s been 15-20 years since I’ve done most of these, so I thought that I’d post them now because I’m going to start on some new things soon.

[fourgods-nobrakes]

One of the hardest things about starting to paint minis, especially fancy characters I'm really invested in, is how do you know when you're done? With writing it's easy, because of what I write (short fiction) and how I write (linearly with a little line editing during drafting); it's easy to go "ah, I've gotten to the end, it's done." But there could be more details on Abaddon! a better blood splatter under this Possessed! more glowy eyes! more nuanced shading! How do you figure out when you should just put it down?

I have a terrible suspicion the answer is "practice, and you'll get a feel for it."

[projectbatman193]

That's what Project Batman is all about!!

[thestudentfarmer]

Hello and Good day,

Today I wanted to give some garden updates!

⭐️Things that have Sprouted ⭐️

🌱Dill. 🌱Cilantro l

🌱Jerusalem artichokes (sunchokes)

🌱Melons (sugar baby) 🌱 Honeydew (Barnyard mix)

⭐️Planted & Direct seed⭐️

🌻Ginger root. 🌻Gladiolus bulbs

🌻 Swiss chard 🌻Carrots

🌻Green beans (bush variety, Blue lake) 1st planting. (4 planned in total)

I still need to plant a few more things but currently I'm held back by lack of wood, soil and the rising heat coming in. Thankfully the sun's staying out later now too, so that should be useful

Also

my Plans currently for those curious about the beans planting cycle. As I mentioned intentions is 4 total plantings.

When the greens beans 1st planting sprouts and is a little more grown, I'll be seeding the other side of the bed with more beans, same variety. 2nd planting, when they sprout, i intend to direct seed the space around the 1st planting with a few more bush type, with a third planting to try and draw out our homes' fresh harvest. (Plus, if the first doesn't do so well, we'll at least be able to hopefully still see some sort of harvest)

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Also thought this was pretty cool and wanted to share, as ya'all know I've been growing broccoli and letting it go to seed.

I cut, collected and set aside the branches si thought closest to having usable seed and~

Found ladybugs!

This one's fresh hatched I believe, some of the hatched ones were red, but most seemed a bright orange (like when butterflies emerge and dry out)

I've never seen the stage between the ladybug gator and the ladybug too. Figure most haven't, particularly those in urban and inner city areas.

This one was just resting next to the empty shell.

Some lady gators chilling. They look a bit spooky but at this stage they eat more aphids than in the adult stage. And as I learned from a web search they eat more than just aphids??

Apparently they eat aphids, scale insects, insect eggs, mealy bugs, leaf hoppers and cornworms among others? Which awesome if so!

Even if the great broccoli seed experiment doesn't work this year or next I'll likely leave a few up again, even if solely for the ladygators and future ladybugs and other beneficials in the garden.

We also found what we believe might be a buckmoth caterpillar? We aren't absolutly certain given everytime I've seen 'em, it's on a hollyhock and not what is their usual food sources? It is Possible a bird brought it over for a snack and went blegh too lol.

We know at least bare minimun it's a stinging type of caterpillar so we'll be cautious as we proceed with care of the Hollyhocks.

That's it for now, Thanks for stopping by :)

🌱🍃Happy Homesteading and Gardening🍃🌱

4.29.2024

[writestuffonline]

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[mintbookonline]

Unlocking Potential: Secrets to Improve Learning Skills

In today's fast-paced world, effective learning is the key to staying ahead. Whether you're a student, a professional, or someone eager to acquire new skills, understanding the secrets to improve learning skills can make a significant difference in your journey. By adopting specific strategies and mindsets, you can enhance your ability to absorb, retain, and apply knowledge more efficiently. Here are some powerful techniques to help you unlock your learning potential.

1. Embrace Active Learning

Passive learning, like simply reading or listening, often doesn't lead to deep understanding. Instead, engage in active learning by questioning the material, discussing it with others, or teaching it to someone else. When you actively participate in the learning process, your brain forms stronger connections, making it easier to recall information later.

2. Set Clear Goals

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Everyone has a preferred learning style, but don't limit yourself to just one. Incorporate various modalities—visual, auditory, and kinesthetic—into your learning routine. For example, you can watch videos, listen to podcasts, and take hands-on notes to reinforce the same concept. This multi-sensory approach helps you grasp information more comprehensively.

5. Stay Curious and Open-Minded

Curiosity is a powerful driver of learning. Cultivate an inquisitive mindset by asking questions, exploring new topics, and staying open to different perspectives. The more curious you are, the more likely you are to seek out new information and make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas.

6. Prioritize Rest and Relaxation

Your brain needs time to process and consolidate information. Prioritize adequate sleep, take breaks during study sessions, and practice relaxation techniques like meditation. Rest and relaxation are crucial components of the learning process, ensuring that your brain is functioning at its best.

By implementing these secrets to improve learning skills, you'll not only enhance your ability to learn but also increase your confidence in tackling new challenges. Remember, learning is a lifelong journey, and with the right strategies, you can unlock your full potential.

[ismailfazil1-blog]

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[rhumbline]

Let’s go back to my first decade of life. About 8 years in, my brother and I were given two guitars by dear friends of the family. One, a Cort, was your standard, round sound hole spruce top acoustic guitar- beautiful for a beginner and what my brother claimed first dibs on. Very well, as my heart was set on the other guitar from the moment I saw it. A black arch top, white binding,white pick guard, which I remember as a Gibson, or possibly a Fender, (more likely a Silvertone) with two elegant f-holes…but with a neck separating from the body, an action that was not just high but impossible. But it was, very beautiful to me. I would play with the tuners, and try to play music, and of course it sounded awful. At some point, it was thrown out as useless (by my parents, not me). The Cort lives on, my brother’s child has it now. But at the end of that first decade, I decided I too wanted to play guitar. I went to a small mom and pop music shop. Rented a guitar there, bought the beginners book and paid my three weeks of lawn mowing money (a he-huge sum in those days) for a set of three lessons, at the end of which I was told by the teacher that I was wasting my time and his, and that I would never play anything, much less guitar. I abashedly returned my rental, threw out the book, and that was that.

Until.

Several decades later, and a couple months ago, I was having a conversation with some musician friends, and they asked me why I never learned an instrument, given my love of music. “I’m hopeless with instruments” I said- and relayed the above to them. One of my friends got quite upset at what I thought was me, and when I asked about it, he wasn’t- but he said he knew that sort of instructor and he looked at me in a funny odd sort of way.

I thought about that conversation all the way home, and for weeks after, And then it struck me. I was 10. How the fuck did anyone know what I could do? Especially someone as backwater as I was, really? So, I did what felt logical.

I bought a guitar. A used guitar- and one I found out that I got a fairly huge bargain on. It’s a spalted maple acoustic guitar. I downloaded an app to teach me how to play but then I had a thought- I might learn some bad habits from the app, so it made more sense to go to a teacher. Found a great one. Get this; I’ve learned what’s called the cowboy chords (open chords ) and I’m struggling with barre chords. Can’t do them properly yet. Yet.

Also, there was an auction for a music store that went out of business, and I jokingly bid on three guitars thinking I would be outbid on them. I did not set high bids. In fact, they were just a little above starting bid. It was just for fun. I was just thinking about guitars and how much joy I was having learning. I still can’t do a c- chord without muting some strings with my hand. But I bid on these as a joke- a sort of joyous amusement.

So I now own four guitars- the one I bought for learning on, and now two classical and one additional acoustic- which sounds brighter and livelier than my original. Classical guitars have a wider, flatter neck - so fingers spread more to create chords.

And I try to play on all four. It’s wonderful- but now, I’m on the lookout for a black arch top, with white binding and elegant f-holes. We’ll see. But damn it , I can play guitar and if there’s something you wanted but were told by some jackass that you couldn’t have because you were not good enough? Fuck em and go for it.

[udhyamm]

The Entrepreneurship Mindset Curriculum: Empowering Future Leaders

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[foldingfittedsheets]

I think something a lot of other people can relate to is the way that you get so conditioned to discomfort that you stop registering it.

I remember sitting at the table with my family, eating dinner as a child. I’d try to eat, because of course I was hungry. But sometimes the flavor or texture was so repugnant that it moved into a category of Not Food.

“Two more bites before you can leave the table.”

“I can’t,” I’d say, trying to explain the impossibility.

But because I was a child they heard, “I won’t,” and made me sit at the table. I’d sit in dull agonized silence, bored and hungry for hours until bedtime when they’d give up. I’d hate myself for not eating and my parents for forcing me to sit there. The few forcefeeding moments ended in vomit.

They’d say, “If you don’t eat this you can’t eat a snack later,” and I moved past trying to communicate my discomfort into accepting that I’d just be hungry.

That state of affairs didn’t last, because my parents realized nothing could force me to eat so they catered to my palate, worrying they’d starve me. But the message stuck. If you can’t do anything about a situation, just accept the suffering.

A few years later my mother called me off the playground to ask, “Are you limping?”

I shrugged. My feet had hurt for a long time, but that was just the way things were now. My mom pulled my socks and shoes off and gasped. The soles of my feet were covered in huge painful planters warts.

“Why didn’t you say anything?!” She demanded but I could only shrug at her. I’d learned a long time ago that saying things about my discomfort didn’t matter, so now I had no words. Sometimes things hurt and sometimes they don’t. I simply accepted and did my best.

Now as an adult trying to learn to improve my own conditions can be hard. If I make food that I can’t eat I’ll force myself to sit at the counter still, full of guilt and self loathing, trying to will myself to eat it.

At first I needed my betrothed to gently take it away to present me with something I could eat. Now on my own I can usually admit that it’s not happening before too long and get something else, but I still feel guilty.

Laying in bed at night waiting for my betrothed to finish getting ready I let out a huge sigh of relief when they turned the lights off.

“Why didn’t you turn them off if they bothered you?” they asked the first time it happened.

“I didn’t even know it was bothering me until it was gone.”

Assessing my physical state now to see if I can improve it is something I’m still relearning but I’m relieved to finally have the space and support to do it.

[esotericfaery]

Boundaries, & the Word Autodidact

Isn't it odd; ironic even, when we're tossed aside (dismissed) by people for building boundaries? In ancient times, people with thick boundaries were respected.

Nowadays, the masses, including many in the so-called "spiritual community", value lack of boundaries, trampling each others grass and flowers, and then complaining when called out on their inappropriate, rude behaviours.

There's nothing raw, as this hasn't happened recently to me.

But it makes me think of the word autodidact.

It has no purpose, at least now.

It seems as if, rather than make us appear to be interesting people to get to know, it often makes us seem inherently standoffish to others, even when, like me, you're friendly and like making new friends.

I can barely stand the word.

I've always, even if feeling a bit of envy when someone has a skill or talent I don't, only been interested in teaching myself, rather than having to take a course. I will be doing at least one course / certification in Astrology, but that's mostly so I can say I'm certified, and cause I might learn a few extra things.

People seem as if they're attempting to live in a vacuum - they want to move into new info, and results, now-now-now, without taking the time and putting in the effort. A vacuum state is about travel to a different state of existence, and not the nuance, the meat of experiences themselves.

We never learn alone. We learn with our ancestors within, and with the people who make the books or instructional videos / audios we study.

And so the word "autodidact", produces a sneer from me.

Don't dismiss book-lovers and the like as pretentious. That makes you rude.

Try to be inspired by those more skilled and talented than you currently are.

I am.

[thestudentfarmer]

Good day everyone :)

This week's garden update~

The beans and pumpkin that grew with the sunflowers are gone now and I've begun thinning out the sunflowers as the seeds get selected by birds.

I like to leave the smaller heads for the smaller native birds of the area. The heads i save, I've been setting into a drying rack where no birds can get to them.

The stalks I've been discarding the leaves in our cities green barrel (compost) program and I'm saving the stalks to either burn, or to chunk up and try a Hügelkultur grow bed. Not sure 100% what will eb grown in it, might be flowers or herbs, maybe strawberries.

This is currently the biggest sunflower yet! That pole is about 6ft off ground. I'll definatly need a ladder when it's time to take a few of the heads.

The broccoli row, there's some little florets now on most the plants! :D

Cabbages, all four are similarly headed now.

The nasturtium, which i need to go through and clean up a bit. The cold did get one side of em pretty sharply.

The carrots.

This is the batch I used the cornstarch planting method. So far, while they lined up real nice I feel like they aren't growing as well as i hoped. Now weather that's the seed, the planting spot or the season/weather I'm not entirely sure. I think I'll do a summer grow as well, just to test it out again.

The back 'l" bed, ive direct seeded some lentils with the asparagus. I intend to grow the lentils then till them back in to the soil. We were going to dump this bed, but it seems we like it still so we'll likely be doctoring it up for a few more seasons.

Well thats it for now :)

🌱🌻Happy Homesteading and Gardening 🌻🌱

1 18 2024

[bookwyrminspiration]

If I knew how to draw it would be over for you hoes <- is an artist

[sophsweet]

Assembling a toolbox for online course creation

The process of creating online courses to sell from a learning management system, for me, has been about finding tools, learning how to use them and adding them to my digital toolbox. At the beginning I didn’t know what I was going to use or need. I had a go on Canva by myself and created a banner with an animated egg. Canva is great if you want to create an image or other media in a specific…