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Cooking.
I had always been afraid of it. Now, I love it.
My biggest advice to anyone who wants to start cooking or is too intimidated to cook: just start doing it. Find a recipe that's simple, follow it to a T and then just keep doing it. You will suck at first, but that's step 1 of any skill. If you cook every night, by month 1 or 2, you'll be significantly better and can expand. Also, whatever time the recipe you looked up says, 1.5 times or double it (especially anything involving cooking onions). You don't have the skills to get it down to that time, and most skip prep work to make it a "quick" recipe.
An important skill to have when cooking is: it doesn't cook faster when you turn the heat up.
I see so many people try this, it's not how it works.
And don't be discouraged when it never turns out, because a lot of recipes these days are written by influencers that aren't giving you the proper measurements, so it'll never actually work out.
When you find a person that actually uploads some proper recipes, follow them, and continue to make their other recipes.
You'll never learn if you're set up for failure and think it's your fault.