Mental Tools

Why Are You Still Trying To Learn from Your Mistakes?

by khatzumoto

Failure has nothing to teach you. Don’t learn from your mistakes. There is one and only one bit of useful, reliable information you can safely glean from failure: “that didn’t work”. Which is wonderful, because now you know to consider maybe not doing that any more. But that’s all you get in terms of valuable,…

by khatzumoto

Difference matters more than distance. The distance between nothing and something is small. But the difference is infinite. “Cause snobs” often talk about making a difference. They’re especially fond of overly combative, guilt-inducing statements like: “if you’re not part of the solution, part you’re part of the problem”. Arguably, they’re right. And if they are,…

by khatzumoto

Quick! What’s your end game with brushing your teeth? Where are you hoping to go with that? What are you hoping to do with it? What kind of jobs (ugh) can you get with yer clean-a$$ teeth? What’s the plan? Are you going to be a TV anchor? Huh? Are you planning on travelling to a country where they speak tooth?

by khatzumoto

Before fluency: Play music Skim books Do SRS reps Hear and understand more than you speak Read more than you write After fluency: Play music Skim books Do SRS reps Hear and understand more than you speak Read more than you write Also, enlightenment 😉 .

by khatzumoto

“Quick and dirty wins the race. Perfection is the enemy of done. Good enough is really effin’ good.” Andrea Scher “When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem…

by khatzumoto

An adult isn’t just a big cell. A big zygote. Adding small, imperceptible changes (at the time) produces a big change at the end. Who you are now is not who you will be; who you are now is not even like who you will be; you will be a completely different person in ten…