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…
Mental Tools
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…
i+1
by khatzumoto
“…for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength” [Mosiah 4] goo.gl/oDRXko Japanese doesn’t require us to be superhuman. She only wants us to show up. We don’t have to know everything about her, just the next thing. Learning is nothing but a process of connecting what you don’t…
You’d Be Speaking German Right Now If…
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 1 of 17 in the series The Art of War of Learning Baal, give me strength. German is a beautiful language. What is so wrong with German that the thought that we’d be speaking it (if the wrong public school thug had been Prime Minister of Britain) is a threat? Fundamentally, English…
The Ancestors (And How to Be Better One to Yourself And Others)
by khatzumoto
Like many Western and Westernized (or, perhaps more accurately, American and Americanized) people around the world of my generation, I grew up steeped in the ideas of Sigmund Freud. A part of me would like to take this opportunity to slide down my pants and take an intellectual dump on the man, but that would…