Comments on: Comfort Zone, Growth Zone, Panic Zone and Situational Goals: Life Is Easier Than You Think /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Why You Don’t Actually Have A “Native” Language (Nobody Does. There’s No Such Thing.) | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000573873 Tue, 21 Apr 2020 11:38:39 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000573873 […] Inputs and outputs. Environments and behaviors. This also means that everything you do counts. Everything you do matters. If you do nothing (zero inputs), you get nothing. If you do something, you get something. If you do something big, deep and/or long enough, you get some big, deep and long outputs. It’s not quite that linear, at least in terms of perception (hence intermediate angst), but it really is that simple. Too simple, in my humble opinion, to require a blog to explain it. […]

]]> By: The Way of the Cockroach versus Clausewitz’s Bastards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000567940 Mon, 19 Aug 2019 07:40:23 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000567940 […] Clausewitz and especially his bastards, which basically includes all of us who endured compulsory schooling, are brittle, brutal, linear thinkers. […]

]]> By: Just Do More of the Good Stuff You’re Already Doing | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000560226 Thu, 08 Mar 2018 18:37:07 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000560226 […] constantly admonished by others and ourselves to “get outside our comfort zone“…s and “think outside the box” and “think outside the ‘thinking […]

]]> By: What Can A Dancer Teach You About Learning Japanese? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000549963 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 22:37:12 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000549963 […] to take me to the Pumping Iron gym at 91st street and First Avenue, where I work out for two hours. The ritual is not the stretching and weight training I put my body through each morning at the gym; …” […]

]]> By: No Pain No Gain - Really? - Bliu Bliu /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000507666 Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:00:33 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000507666 […] Read the full article from AJATT here. […]

]]> By: Just Do More of the Good Stuff You’re Already Doing | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000067869 Wed, 02 Apr 2014 10:37:15 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000067869 […] Comfort Zone, Growth Zone, Panic Zone and Situational Goals: Life Is Easier Than You Think […]

]]> By: Kuba /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000064633 Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:56:48 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000064633 Okay, fine, I really get the idea of changing the environment you have around you instead of forcing yourself to finish any task, but what about unchanable things of the environment? Like family, friends? How to communicate with them while on Skype there’re onyl Japanese people to talk to?
Thanks in advance!

]]> By: The L Word | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000062977 Fri, 13 Dec 2013 05:07:13 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000062977 […] so I could happily go back to being acerbic and cynical all the time, but they’re not. Sure, those fire-under-the-feet strategies can work, especially from an external source; there’s no …. They can even work internally — you hating and berating yourself into […]

]]> By: Do Not Look Directly At Sun. May Cause Schlep Blindness. | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-1000015605 Wed, 01 May 2013 02:07:29 +0000 /?p=462#comment-1000015605 […] Do not look directly at goal. May cause schlep blindness. Unless you have special tools (e.g. a lifetime calendar — analogous to eclipse-viewing glasses) and a specific reason, do not look at the Sun. You must not if you want to keep your mental vision intact and thus keep being able to see that paths and opportunities that are right in front of you, right underfoot. Call it the “Solar Principle” 3. […]

]]> By: Good Immersion, Bad Immersion | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-326418 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 01:07:04 +0000 /?p=462#comment-326418 […] Bad: All or nothing […]

]]> By: Ernest /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-272158 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 03:51:35 +0000 /?p=462#comment-272158 This post has been absolutely revolutionary for me; and I say this with no exaggeration. This has totally transformed the way I will go with setting out and achieving goals.

]]> By: kai /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-265210 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 22:53:42 +0000 /?p=462#comment-265210 This post is so liberating and that extends beyond just language learning imo. Posts like this are why I keep checking back even when I’ve got the AJATT method down.

]]> By: Do “Wide Standards” Apply To Immersion?: High Achievement Despite Low=Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-176700 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:56:27 +0000 /?p=462#comment-176700 […] about the slippery slope? Well, there is none any longer. We’ve literally inverted the slope. All convenient paths lead to Japanese. All our best gear is there. You can go English if you want, […]

]]> By: Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-174881 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 07:46:01 +0000 /?p=462#comment-174881 […] and from further away. On the soccer pitch of your Japanese life, you want to make the goal so wide that virtually any ball you kick can get […]

]]> By: Somegirl /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-162828 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:42:51 +0000 /?p=462#comment-162828 Oh dude you rock…. After spending minutes and minutes reading Pavlina and Young and listening to dumb little man and what not, you’re the one who is actually making sense to me!!! Arigatou gozaimasu!

]]> By: Bad Goal, Good Goal | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-121190 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 08:00:53 +0000 /?p=462#comment-121190 […] Bad Goal, Good Goal August 1, 2011By khatzumotoAnimaniacs started it. We’re going to finish it. Bad goal, good goal. […]

]]> By: simon /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-120250 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 09:26:10 +0000 /?p=462#comment-120250 good points , but for those of us who don’t have issues with just showing up and getting things done and already achieve results…. the environment is just the beginning. I think the article was referring to people who want to go beyond what others normally do.

I can’t imagine that olympic gymnasts and opera singers just hang out in the gym or the opera house… pushing yourself to the top, many times with the help of others, is a whole other thing.

]]> By: It’s Not Choice, It’s Environment | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-120209 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 06:04:52 +0000 /?p=462#comment-120209 […] the easy way out. Don’t change yourself. Change your environment. Don’t choose Japanese. Choose a Japanese environment. Don’t do Japanese. Only have […]

]]> By: It’s Not Time, It’s Choice | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-119201 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 10:54:38 +0000 /?p=462#comment-119201 […] Don’t “do” Japanese. Don’t “set aside time” for Japanese. Choose Japanese. Show up to Japanese. Then, just to be safe, lay down some suppression fire — make other choices difficult, inconvenient, or impossible. […]

]]> By: Tips – 8 ways you can motivate yourself to do English / Chinese | aiton english /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone/#comment-115916 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:10:10 +0000 /?p=462#comment-115916 […] For more from Khatzu, you can read here /comfort-zone-growth-zone-panic-zone […]

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