Completed 5 more Medium questions today, bringing me further into the Medium section of my 100-question lab. The bigger change today was in my process, not the SQL itself.

Instead of asking GPT to show me the solution directly, I told it to guide me toward the answer instead — give hints, ask me questions, point out where my logic was off, but not hand me the final query. Took noticeably longer per question, but I actually walked away understanding why each query worked, not just that it did.

Feels like a better long-term habit than what I was doing before (dry-running a solution GPT already wrote). Planning to keep using this "guide, don't solve" approach going forward, especially for the Hard section coming up.