I'm a high schooler located in the United States of America. My friend and I are starting an SMMA agency together, but we want to know what we are talking about. Where can we learn Marketing for 100% free?

-Thanks (:

I don’t know exactly why I take so long to do class work. I’m doing the work just fine. I just take forever.

I would go to it, then leave and procrastinate, then leave, and procrastinate. Here I am writing this post.

Currently doing American history and psychology.

I can’t even imagine what it would be like without chatgpt inspiring me to write.

I feel like it's pointless to try anything since I'll never be good at anything. I feel lucky to have gotten a bachelor's degree, but the stress of grad school is starting to make me feel that I'm not capable of being good at anything, and now I find myself no longer trying anything.

I know the first step is to ask more questions and be open to feedback, but how to I get people to engage with the discussion more?

I want to travel so damn badly. problem is...I'm awfully afraid of heights. I've never been on a plane because of this. i don't wanna live my life in fear :( if I don't get over this fear now, what am I gonna do when I'm an adult?

what if I'm driving somewhere and I have to get on a bridge? or if I HAVE to make an emergency flight? i live in a mountainous area; the fuck am I gonna do if I'm driving in the mountains? i live near an amusement park and all my friends love rollercoasters. i wish I could join them but I'm always too damn scared :(

back to the plane thing, it seems awful. you're in a small space many miles up in the sky. all you see is cloud, or even worse, water below you. absolutely terrifying.

my family isn't very helpful with comforting me. we don't travel much, but whenever it comes up they're just like, "just don't be scared." like, wow, what a novel idea.

Good evening.

As the title indicates, I would like to learn how to read and actually understand more academic writing. While I can usually read papers in a very literal sense- I know the meaning of the words almost all the time- I find it nearly impossible to really understand what is going on in the slightest. All of academia may as well be a grimoire in Greek for how little I actually grasp.

So I wanted to ask for a spot of help with learning to read papers here. I would really appreciate some answers, before I sacrifice my firstborn for better comprehension.

so I met this girl 4 days ago and she is super attractive. I realized the first time that she likes it fairly fast, as she told me, and because she tries to go faster when I go slower. We had sex 3 times before going to sleep and twice in the morning. I couldn't get up when she wanted it in the shower, but she was still pleased and was impressed with the performance. So the thing is, I can cum multiple times if there is like some cuddling in between. The problem is that she wants long and fast strokes, which make me cum too fast. What can I do? We don't wear condoms as she has a Copper IUD, she is studying to become a midwife, and I'm studying medicine.

It has been a difficult year, lots of work related stress, family drama and most recently having kids. Used to be an avid reader but now just 5-10 mins in and my mind start to wander off. Same goes with podcast, documentary and even movies. Tried the breathing exercises with limited success. Any advice is much appreciated.

ive quite literally been a coward all my life, i cant bulk and cant appear bigger, i occasionally get picked on for being too nice

I am very fascinated towards learning new skills and stay updated about the news and trends in the market.
But all these youtube videos and tweets aren't helping me in that, so would you mind if I create a community or newsletter for it.

Tldr; I want to learn how to fall asleep by 10:30 in the night and wake up early next morning.

So, I work from office and my timings are 12:30 PM to 09:30 PM. I start to get ready for the office from 10:30 AM and take a cab for my office at 11:30 AM. I come back at my place by 10:30 PM.

Overall, I have decidicated 12 hours a day of my time for my occupation. Which is 10:30 AM to 10:30 PM.

After coming back to my place, I either watch something like a movie or a TV show, or just talk about random stuff with my roommate. It's impossible to avoid my roommate because both of us live in a shared single bedroom apartment.

I want to study, which I do on the weekends and holidays, but I think I should be studying more as I'm a slow learner and it takes me more time to be good at something compared to the general public.

I've tried this before, I simply can't fall asleep early into the night, I usually sleep somewhere around 1 to 3 AM and wake up after 9 in the morning. Which I realised is not very productive.

I can't focus on mathematics or programming as much as I want to after working in the office all day. I think I should study in the morning, but waking up in the morning is a tough challenge for me.

Can someone please suggest how can I solve these problems?

• I want to avoid my roommate after work (10:30 PM), without hurting emotionally.
• I want to wake up early so that I can study/learn more efficiently.
• I want to be able to fall asleep early in the night, so it gets easier to wake up the next morning.

I appreciate your time reading through this with an intent to help, thank you ❤️

How can I ENJOY dancing? Now I've tried dancing with friends, with different songs and different styles, etx. I just don't enjoy it. All my friends keep asking me to dance with them and I want to enjoy it. Has anyone experienced this before? How can I unlock the enjoyment of dancing? I have never felt the urge to dance when a song is on. Should I take dancing lessons?

I am a trauma survivour. One of the consequences is that there are large areas of what 'everybody knows' that I don't. There is a whole subredit dedicated to social skills. And most of it is people looking for help, and not really finding it.

As examples: I've never had anyone make a pass at me. I'm not drop dead handsome, but I

Here's a couple of stories:

Story: I had an upset stomach that was producing a small burp about every 3 seconds. After a few 'excuse me' I stopped saying them, as even a quiet excuse me was louder than the actual burp.

A couple hours later my stepson (age 50) laces into me, "Why are you being so rude?"

"Say what?"

"Burping"

"I told you couple hours ago. Gut is unhappy."

"But you are rude!"

"What do you want me to do? Leave the room? I'll point out, we're in a car now."

"You know what to do."

"No I don't. Tell me"

"Now you are just being difficult!"

"I mean it. I don't know what you expect of me!"

"You're impossible!"

"Fuck you" and I got out of the moving car (coming up to a stop)

Laura inquired later. She said that he wanted me to continue to say "excuse me" with every burp, even if the excuse me was more than the burb" but from her tale, even she had difficulty getting him to say this.

Yes, an amusing story, although amusement was not big on my hashtag list at the time.

But it's only this week, that I figured it out:

He was so strongly bound by "This is something we don't talk about with adults" that he couldn't bring himself to say to a peer, "It is considered rude to burp without saying "excuse me for each occurrence."

He KNEW everyone knows this. He KNEW I knew it, and indeed I did, but I always considered that the 'excuse me' should be the same level as the offense, and that repeating the 'excuse me' too much made the whole thing a parody of manners.) He didn't believe me when I said I didn't know what he wanted me to do. I was already doing the best I knew.

In school someone lets out a belch, "That was well brought up, too bad you weren't" was one of the teaching phrases. A LOT of norm passing, and social cues were passed as jokes and teasing.

Here's another one. On a trip with Brendan, I was chatting about words, and used the word 'nigger' as an example of a word that had very strong negative connotations.

"Don't say that"

"Say what? Nigger?"

"Stop!"

so I stopped. the subject died of embarrassment a few minutes later.

I found it fascinating that for this particular word, it wasn't permitted (at least in Brendan's group) to use the word to talk about itself. This is the only example of this I've run into so far.

Reminds me of the story of the City that refused Genghis Khan's offer of peace. City was razed, the stones buried by the populace, the people killed, all records of that city erased, saying that city's name was punishable by death. No one knows where it was

How many other things like this are there out there? Stuff that is NOT mentioned becasue you don't talk about that? Taboo subjects?

How many times, have I done the equivalent to a burp, or fart, and not said 'excuse me' or thrown salt over my left shoulder, and therefore nudge myself from "possible group member" to "tolerated, but kept in the kitchen"

I'm not punctilious about Gesundheit or Bless You when someone sneezes. While this is not the same level of social faux pas as putting 11 candles in a carefully moved cowpie for your brother's birthday, I wonder how many people I have rubbed the wrong way with my casual way with the sneezing observances. (Cowpie birthday honors story made up)

How many other things like this are there that I'm not even as aware of as I am about the burp and gesundheit rules? I'm ok with ignoring social norms, but I should become aware of them, and understand who I'm offending.

On an autism forum I found a whole thread of these: People who refuse to explain what an individual is doing wrong.

https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/1esc10l/why_not_just_tell_us/

Where are there books or vids explaining to Vulcans how to move through human society (or at least the north american version of it) without offending.

It really would be easier if I had pointed ears and green skin so was clearly an alien.

I just want everyone to let it all out at me, make me really feel pain. Any idea how?

I would like to learn how to be a good rapper. I freestyle every few days and write rhymes in a notebook sometimes but I don't think my stuff is that good.

I’m 23 M and around 5’9 in height. Through out my life, i’ve been average around 55 Kg and after about 2 years of junk food and not caring as much , i’m sitting at around 80 Kg now.

I’ve now started taking fitness seriously and i’m starting the gym today. I just wanted to know how I can build muscle or turn my fat into muscle but not look massive and bulky.

I want to remaining quite slim but not look like i’ve not eaten for 40 days and nights. I wanna have kind of a toned body.

What i’m looking for is what work out routines I should focus on but also, what to eat and how many calories I should be intaking.

I’m confused at whether I should be on a deficit or a surplus.

I can train 6 days a week and I’m going to try stay motivated for this. If it helps I want to kinda have like Tom Ellis’ body or Matt Bomber or in that physique range.

Edit: So today at the gym, I did comfotable weights as it was my first time starting out in 2 years. I did a full upper body work out and it felt good.

I'm probably going to go tomorrow to do a leg day and allow my Upper Body to rest.

In terms of eating as far as i'm aware, I need to eat 2,163 Calories per day. I can easily manage this however, usually my food consists of whatever my mother cooks up (as an Asian man, usually this is lamb/chicken/fish curries which some vegetarian dishes). AFAIK, this should be okay in terms of eating.

Alongside this, my questions are how do I go about eating and making sure I can get the best positive returns.

It could be anything under the sun...skill sets, hobby activities, health inputs, finance management, personality development, appearance improvement, life skills, better social connections...really anything.

Hoping to get a small win before entering into 2025!

I have no trouble saying no to people I know mostly and I don’t care about it afterwards. But I realised if I say no to a stranger I feel very frustrated and guilty afterwards.

For example, I have a 5 month old puppy who is absolutely adorable. And I have been trying to train him, his trainer told me not to let everyone pet him or say hello since he started biting me a lot because I would let any stranger pet him.

I have to say no to atleast 10-15 pushy people everyday and I’m exhausted because sometimes the no gets lot of angry feedback from these people. I grew up to avoid conflict and I see how this frustrates me when these strangers are disappointed. It frustrates me that I care so much but I also don’t know how to say F off to these pushy people and not care and just enjoy my puppies company. This has affected me so much that I try and avoid taking him out or take him out during strange hours which isn’t fair with him.

I know it sounds stupid but I desperately want to learn to not give a f about these strangers. TIA

Basically we're not close anymore. so for context, this person was the first non family person i ever got so close to. in all my 21 years of life, i had never met a person who was so interested in getting to know me. we used to talk everyday and never argued. there were no romantic feelings involved from sides but my brain got so used to them and now its been some months and i cry too much bcs i miss them. (reaching out to them wont solve the problem bcs knowing the situation i dont want them to feel obliged to talk to me. im fine with people moving on from me and meeting new people. but its hurts idk) while i get it that the best option to move on from a person is to go no-contact, i just cant unfollow them and stop talking (we make small talks now from time to time). is there any other alternative to this? i sometimes feel like i dehydrate myself from crying too much. sorry in advance if this post sounds redundant (?)

I know many people who have never played a game before, but when they play it for the first time, they are the best at it. I want to learn how to be able to do that. This isn't only for sports related games but for everything else also, for example at school, at the subject that i love the most and have practiced for several years, someone else always just swoops in and tops the class somehow, and that person hasn't put in half the effort i have.

So i was up one night doomscrolling when i came across the concept of sleep paralysis for the first time and it freaked me out bad because i gained a bad fear of sleep for like 2 months when before i would be gone in 5-10 minutes.

Now its pretty much gone but theres some lingering anxiety when going to sleep.

I want to learn how to have a healthy relationship with sleep again

I'm nearing the end of the holiday and feel like crap knowing that the end is coming.

This always happens the moment I realise I'm halfway through a holiday. And then I mope around for days after a holiday, thinking of the next holiday that I can go on.

I have programs like GIMP & Blender and I have all kinds of ideas in my head for book covers and children's book interiors. I just don't know how to create those ideas in digital format. Like basic drawings of a character but in different poses, clothes and facial expressions.

I feel like I don't about some topics I should? I tend to brush off things I should think more about, it's like, there's so many topics, ideas, or plans I think are simple so don't think too much about it.

How do I realize sooner and pick the correct topics to think more about?

I had a gnarly spinal fusion this summer and I’ve been getting back into working out. But I’d rather do it with someone. I’ve had a couple friends go with me here and there but they’re too busy/workouts are too soft/intense. i’ve reached out on my school’s network and heard nothing. How can I get a gym buddy? Going alone is kind of depressing.

I am currently studying in my first semester. I'm interested in sociology and politics.

I'm using this as an example, but I always feel like this. On Wednesday, Trump won the election in the USA and our government dissolved. Afterwards, I had a very interesting and insightful discussion with a friend about a YouTube video on the US election.

Due to these events and the perception that the debate culture is becoming more and more toxic, I started thinking about what could be the reason for this. Through my studies and my personal interests, I have recently read a lot of studies, scientific findings and theories.

I had thought about it for a long time and came to various conclusions and approaches, which I then wanted to test by reading studies.

And now the real question/problem begins: As soon as I finished thinking about one line of thought, the next approach popped into my head. It was like these hyperlinks in Wikipedia. You click one or two or three or four. This happens all the time. When I tried to write down and visualize my thought process, everything was suddenly erased from my brain. I had such interesting approaches and thoughts, but everything was gone. I'm always like this and it's incredibly frustrating. I then tried to revisit my thoughts using various terms that were still stuck, but I couldn't do it. Now I have a heading and a few scribbled keywords in my notebook, but they don't help me any further. The whole flow of thoughts has simply disappeared. It's damn annoying because it happens to me every time.

Tell me I'm not alone in this.

What can I do about it?

Thanks :)

I hope thats the right flair btw...

I'm curious to hear how others approach learning something new. Do you have specific techniques or processes you rely on? For example, some people use methods like memorization, visualization, or manifestation. Others might focus on things like active recall, spaced repetition, hands-on practice, or building mental models.

If you've found any particular strategies, frameworks, mindmaps, or mindsets that really help you master new skills, I'd love to hear them! Looking to learn from others' experiences and hopefully discover some new approach or tools to add to my own approach.

I want to learn to be technologically organized.l use a 256g iPhone 13, I have Google 1 -100G subscription (because Gmail kept sending storage issues and how my email will stop working this was my quickfix solution while i organize myself. )

I also have 2TB iCloud. Im scared of switching off sometimes settings or leaving Google photos worried about loosing my memories.

Which one is better Google One ( will upgrade if it’s the better option) or iCloud.

How do i remove stuff from my phone and just save in cloud and be able to access it with ease, and also not loose anything at the moment i feel like i have everything all over. Which settings should be on or off to optimize storage.

Can i please have technology for Dummies 101.