What about for a bass guitar player I just know how to play notes I don't know what the notes are called and any chords, tabs, and scales. I just know how to tune.
Whenever you practice start and end with something thats fun to play.
Have patience to learn it properly, take some classes to learn the basics, that is the most important in my opinion.. If you know the basics you can learn it yourself.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.