Like this. Basic stuff, “I wish I had been taught how to do my taxes in high school” kind of stuff. Long-form video content is preferred but not required.

Edit: I should clarify for everyone in the thread that I could probably work my way up to reading stuff, especially further on when I’ve built up some better habits. Should also mention my executive dysfunction/ADHD issues in this post body

  • tisktisk@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    Do you really not see an issue with the approach being taken here? You’re looking for resources that you assume will help you, but in the spirit of the matrix movies, “You can’t see past the decisions you haven’t made yet.”

    The brain hasn’t evolved to retain information it doesn’t deem useful. I guess what I’m really getting at is, how can you be confident that anything supplied here will be retained if you were previously unaware you even needed to know in the first place? Don’t underestimate the value of deep learning via experience rather than preparation imho. I promise I’m not shade-throwing, I was much like you when I was younger and have a couple similar reddeet posts, and it was mostly wasteful preparing to prepare nonsense if that makes sense.

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      how can you be confident that anything supplied here will be retained if you were previously unaware you even needed to know in the first place?

      The information I’m looking for wasn’t immediately important for me to know earlier in life, and because of a mix of the ADHD issues, a lack of home economics-type education and a lot of these kinds of responsibilities being handled by someone else growing up, I wasn’t really in a place to think of educating myself for the future. This all changed a while ago and I realized I needed to do a lot of catching up to be a functional, self-autonomous person. I’ve gotten the impression that there are a ton of folks who feel this way about stuff like learning to do taxes.

      TL;DR, my brain holds it as useful, very important information now.