/competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/ 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 /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000477995 Thu, 04 Sep 2014 03:37:10 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000477995 […] Competition is for the Weak and Lazy […]

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000061767 Wed, 20 Nov 2013 23:37:46 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000061767 […] Competition is for the Weak and Lazy […]

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000054665 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:50:36 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000054665 Competition is for the Weak and Lazy – t.co/ZWONpXyFXj t.co/ZWONpXyFXj

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000054666 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 16:49:59 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000054666 RT @ajatt: “I’ve spent too long beating myself up, telling myself that I am bad at learning languages… when really, I’m bad at … t.c…

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000054638 Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:11:25 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000054638 Your seventh superscripted note was hilarious, but maybe that’s just me. Keep it coming, haha.

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000053314 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 17:10:30 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000053314 RT @ajatt: “The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.” t.co/uynWfq6nfD

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000053315 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 17:01:59 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000053315 RT @ajatt: “The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.” t.co/uynWfq6nfD

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000053316 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:52:46 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000053316 If you are trying to get better at anything, read this, feel better, then back to it!!! t.co/qF59OJzuYH

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000053317 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 15:02:00 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000053317 RT @ajatt: “The only way to beat the competition is to stop trying to beat the competition.” t.co/ZQfw37j2T1

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-1000011018 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:37:05 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-1000011018 […] So I play a lot of frisbee and ice hockey with people who are better than me. I’m almost always the bottom of the pack in terms of speed and skill. Once in a while though, I play pick-up with kids who haven’t had as much experience as me and they think I’m amazing. They think I’m poetry in motion. They think I’m the Lord of the Dance. […]

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-261736 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:41:16 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-261736 My father is a world-class triathlete, and has been saying “only measure yourself against your workout log” to me since I was in Toddlerstaat.

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-175700 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:15:30 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-175700 Were you listening at all?  This isn’t about the professor.  No matter what the professor is thinking, if *you* stop thinking of competing with your classmates, *you* will do better at the task at hand.  Even if the task at hand is something completely artificial, like taking a test in college, or throwing a rubber bouncy ball through a metal hoop.
This would be like Michael saying “that isn’t the mindset that most NBA referees have”.  Yeah, even if it’s true, who cares?  What possible difference does it make?  When you stop thinking about competing, the end result of this is “you get a better score on the test”.  In what world is that not a useful thing?
Or, I guess you could wait around for these “most” people to come around to your mindset before you do anything.  Good luck with that.

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-166961 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 20:55:13 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-166961 Hey just wanted to say thanks for this post.
Its made me realise something about myself, I remember always thinking it’s best not to compete with others, just because logically there’s always someone better then you so why waste energy.I thought if I didn’t do that then technically I’d be competing with myself but I soooooo wasn’t I was competing with the idea of me(or should I say the ideal me, so there’s no margin for error or improvement, I can’t compete with an ideal I’m slaughtered as soon as I step in the ring). My logic wasn’t objective enough and I hadn’t consider all the factors. Hopefully I’ll be able to apply this now and finally meet and compete with myself. 🙂  

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-164522 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:03:33 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-164522 I wish this was written and read around when I was at music school. For some reason only bass players seemed to understand this idea.

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-164432 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:25:28 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-164432 I’m a doctoral student, so I needed to read this post. My life seems to be about competing against others- for funding, for jobs, to write the most excellent research… etc. Or, in the case of people who study Japan, such as me, to be the most fluent.
I’ve spent too long beating myself up, telling myself that I am bad at learning languages… when really, I’m bad at certain ideas other people have about how I should learn a language.
I really enjoy your writing and your attitude. Someday when my dissertation becomes a book, I’ll be thanking you in the credits.

]]> /competition-is-for-the-weak-and-lazy/#comment-164364 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:08:36 +0000 /?p=5860#comment-164364 Unfortunately this is the mindset that most college professors have… You either know it then or make an F

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