I've tried learning online before and quit. What's different here?
Most online learning is built to sell you the feeling of progress, not progress itself. You watch a video, follow along, the code works while you're watching — and then you close the tab and realize you can't do anything on your own. That's not a discipline problem. That's a structure problem. Tutorial purgatory is real: you can spend hundreds of hours in it and come out knowing less than you think, because what you've learned is how to follow instructions, not how to think. PE's approach is different because the workshops aren't passive. You're working — building things, making decisions, getting stuck on purpose — and there's a person reviewing what you produce and pointing to what you're missing. That feedback loop is what actually changes how you think. It's slower than watching a video. It's supposed to be.