I've had a hard time learning lisp. I feel like I don't really know what's it's good at, or what to do with it. To remedy that I've tried learning elisp to do

I've had a hard time learning lisp. I feel like I don't really know what's it's good at, or what to do with it. To remedy that I've tried learning elisp to do some fun stuff with emacs, but usually I end up fighting/learning emacs as a system rather than lisp as a language when I do that.