Fear. Shame. A desire to cower in a corner and disappear forever. These are emotions I know all too well. 🙁 Success so big and bad that people think it and I am miraculous? I also have some experience with that. 😉 Many parts of the spectrum have I seen and and considered. The thing…
Language is Messy and So Should You!
by khatzumoto
A short time ago, I was on a trip with some friends. We rented a small house together and hung out. And one morning, while all of us were in the kitchen, I re-realized [not a typo] something about myself, namely that: I don’t like things half-done. So when I see someone cooking and trying…
You’ve Got 99 Million Small Problems — Not a Big, Single One
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 11 of 17 in the series The Art of War of LearningThe other day, a good cishet male friend of mine, Dexter Kent (which, and I cannot stress this enough, is not his legal name; and he hasn’t told me what his preferred pronouns are, so, Phuket like Thailand, I’m goin’…
The Way of the Cockroach versus Clausewitz’s Bastards
by khatzumoto
Resilience. Is what I want to talk to you about a little bit today. Buckle up, because you’re about to get a dose of academically unvetted pop psychology. But then, as the great Morpheus once said, how would that be different from any other AJATT day, amiright? Not long ago, I was in the kitchen…
Remember That You Are, Were and Will Always Be Human: Infinite in Possibility and Finite in Action
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 12 of 17 in the series The Art of War of LearningThis entry is part 24 of 26 in the series Timeboxing Trilogy“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad” so said Prometheus, in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Masque of Pandora” (1875). For AJATT purposes, I would change that to read:…
Don’t Be A Murderous Mother Language Learner
by khatzumoto
So there are two broad “failure modes” for language-learners, whether or not they’re autodidacts: Absentee Father (Deadbeat Dead): Showing up too rarely Murderous Mother (Susan Smith): Present, but violent and cruel and doing everything wrong. These metaphors are both really dark, but, you already know I’m into that. And if you didn’t know, then now…