It's always felt to me like, "Oh you want to learn to cook? Great!" This is a pickaxe. I want you to mine some iron slag out of this vein.
"What does this have to do with cooking?"
"Well, you want to use a knife to cut your vegetables don't you? How on earth do you expect to get a knife to cut your vegetables if you don't mine for iron slag, refine it, build a forge, learn blacksmithing, make thousands of inferior and useless knives until by trial and error you finally have a knife you can cut vegetables with!"
"Ok, so once that is done then I can be a cook, right?"
"What? are you a fucking moron? Look at this asshole who thinks he can be a chef if he knows how to make a knife! What an idiot! You need a pot and a pan and a kitchen, but to get a kitchen you need a house and to get a house you have to buy the land and then to get the food you have to learn agriculture and animal husbandry, woodworking, stone-masonry, how to quarry, political intrigue, bartering, build a working economy you and 7 other people can all agree on using..."
It isn't that difficult. All I really needed was a problem and a line on the tools I needed to solve them. All the other stuff may make me competent should I need to rebuild the world's technology stack from the ground up a.k.a Dr. Stone but it never earned me a dime of income of served the most basic of purposes in attempting to dissuade me from a computer career.