How To Literally Read Books Like You Watch TV : An EVEN MORE Powerful Technique Than The Last One

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OK, first a bit of housekeeping. What was the “the last one?”. Well, it was basically RanTim(randomized micro-timeboxing) applied to reading a book. Secondly (in sequence but not importance), I have to thank Takashi ISHII, author of The One Minute Study Method That Will Really Make You Smarter (Amazon | 本当に頭がよくなる 1分間勉強法 (中経の文庫) | 石井 貴士…

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How Zombie Gunship Taught Me All I Need to Know To Make My Real Life Awesome (And So Can You!): Gamifying Real Life For Fun and Profit and (Almost) For Free Using the Awesome New Technique of Randomized Timeboxing

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This entry is part 1 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy

This entry is part 1 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy“In her study of slot machine gambling in Las Vegas, anthropologist Natasha Schüll argues that Americans face too many choices…enough to give a sense of overload…To escape, gamblers flee to a machine zone where the goal is not to win but to be. Gambling…

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Don’t Learn Grammar, Learn Phrases

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So, I was learning some new words in Mandarin the other day. And, as I’ve mentioned in the past, I like to do things like use the materials that Taiwanese people would use to learn English or Japanese. It’s “working backwards” in a way, that is, not quite using books in the way their authors…

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The Art of War (Sort Of) Applied to Learning A Language: Logistics, Supply Lines and Force Concentration

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This entry is part 3 of 17 in the series The Art of War of Learning

This entry is part 3 of 17 in the series The Art of War of LearningFor starters, let me put this out there, just so we’re clear: I am a pacifist. I think armed conflict is almost always some combination of immoral, unnecessary and/or stupid. True, literal self-defense would be the only exception, which is…

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