Easy Way to Override Theme in Wordpress?

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I'm using a theme in my Wordpress, and it's overriding any manual HTML edits I try to make.

I'm trying to make my links blue, but it won't take them.

When I try to google how to fix this, it tells me to put a section of code into the CSS sheet, which I can't find in there.

People keep going to my page and getting confused because the links don't look like links. It would be tedious to take off the theme and rebuild it that way so I don't want to do that either. I haven't done any coding in years and even then my skills were well below average. Can anyone help?

The page is for my study. Here it is if anyone wants to look at the front end: https://autatwork.wordpress.com/

First you need to create a child theme
https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

Second you should learn CSS specificity and cascade rules
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/cascade.html

I recommend learning how to user a browser inspector. Firefox and Chrome have them out of the box, and they will help with finding the element. They also help you understand why the rules are overridden.