I’ve been on PicoCTF for a while now, learning materials and using tools like nmap etc etc, but now I have the question of ” what now? “

Am I learning the content right? why am I finding it hard to go down the rabbit hole?Can anyone help me out by stating how you’d tackle CTFs if you were able to go back time?The main issue I am facing is that I feel as thought everything I learnt is blurry and has a lot of learning gaps which overwhelms me.

Its like all I do is go around the same topic, emursion…crypto…reverse eng, forensics, its really broad and sometimes I feel as though I wouldnt be specialized in one singular thing ( as I was on in the comments, I feel as though its not aliging to real life circumstances ) , which causes self questionare lol, resources are limited towards ” the ctf syllabi ” if you get what I mean, hence I found that maybe learning material specified is nice, but idk if I should take the risk, because then I would be missing out on the other parts which probably other hackers are well aware of.

I started drifting to hardware hacking because of this, it just seems much more interesting than doing some reminder theorem to decrypt random cat images. ( Do not get me wrong I love it I just feel like its a cycle now, and I want to play around more. )

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thanks in advance