How Did You Teach Yourself SEO?

I was teaching myself SEO at the time from like Neil Patel and Brian Dean from backlinko. They had a free video on their YouTube channel talking about how if you find forums ranking the SERPs, that's a good sign of low competition. That really blew the door open for me in terms of getting good at keyword research. I would just research things as they went along. It did help a little bit, but it wasn't like a huge advantage or anything. Yeah. Our first sites are rarely ones we're looking back on proud of or necessarily rankle that well. But what turned the corner for you? How did you figure it out? So you got such a successful site