You live in an artificial house, drive an artificial car, use an artificial cellphone… And yet, when it comes to learning languages, suddenly you’re a prisoner of Nature? Where were your genes when you were flying in an airplane, above the clouds, near the speed of sound? Where were your genes when you listened to…
Mental Tools
Indecision Just Means Any Will Do: The Problem is Choice
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 2 of 7 in the series The First World Problem is ChoiceOsakaWilson “If you’ve got all the information and it is that difficult to decide between them, it doesn’t really matter which one you pick. The reason you can’t decide is because one is not sticking out as better for you,…
Awesome Parallels Between AJATT and the Suzuki Music Method
by khatzumoto
Thus spake Erick P., and incredibly handsome young man from Brazil [edited for typos]: Khatzumoto! THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MAN! Before anything else, I wanna thank you for the incredibly useful, entertaining and inspiring fountain of knowledge that is AJATT. I’m dead serious, it’s just life-saving. I’m from Brazil and have been living the past few days…
The Search for the System: How I Found One, Why You Need One
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series SystemsAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. ~ Arthur C. Clarke As much as I love “Star Trek”, I’m actually rather weak on the movies, especially the TOS ones (the The Original Series ones — I know, redundant redundant, right?). I’ve seen all the…
Why The System Won’t Set You Free
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series Systems“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” Alfred North Whitehead Why won’t a given system set you free? Because you can’t change it. A system you can’t change is a prison. A man-made system you can’t…
Action is Easy. Decision is Hard.
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series The First World Problem is Choice“It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.” Elbert Hubbard “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears…