This entry is part of 10 in the series What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and LifeOK, so these are the HABU Yoshiharu books we’re going to cover: The Power of Intuition (ちょっかんりょく) [直感力 (PHP新書) | 羽生 善治 |本 | 通販 | Amazon] The Power of Making Decisions (けつだんりょく）[決断力 (角川oneテーマ21) |…
What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and Life
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 10 in the series What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and LifeSo, as you probably already know, all chess originated in, like, India. The Persian variant became Western (international) chess. There’s a bunch of regional variants; there’s a Chinese variant, an Ethiopian variant, as well as…
What Can A Dancer Teach You About Learning Japanese?
by khatzumoto
What can a dancer teach you about learning languages? As it turns out, just about everything. Twyla Tharp. It’s not a household name. In fact, whenever I hear it, I picture Tilda Swinton — another woman lots of T’s in her name and very little fat on her body. …Just sayin’. Anyway, it turns out…
Why Are You Acting Like A Deadbeat Dad Language Learner?
by khatzumoto
The day you stop sucking at the language isn’t the end of the journey, it’s the beginning. Universities pay full, luscious lip service to this. Graduation is called “commencement”, at least in North America. But lip service it is. Full lusciousness notwithstanding. It’s said that most peoples learning — in fact, all nonfunctional reading —…
What Can the French Revolution and Austrian Economics Teach You About Learning Japanese?
by khatzumoto
So, I’ve been reading about politics and history lately. Voltaire’s Bastards, Amaury de Riencourt, David Deutsch (The Beginning of Infinity), stuff like that. And I came upon something of a…how can I put this… It’s fashionable — and even justifiable — to roundly dismiss many of the heroes and products of the English-speaking world. Stop…
How Can I Turn Big, Complex Decisions Into Binary Decisions, Just Like the Cool Kids? Decision Binarization In Action: A Real Life Example
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series The First World Problem is ChoiceSo, one time, I had to make an appointment with the vet, for my cats, to get special shots for them so I could take them overseas, by plane, and thus have them hang out with me…overseas, as one does,…