Comments on: Getting There Is Also Your Life

By: Don’t Think Of It As A New Year, Think Of It As A New Day… | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 18 Aug 2019 14:37:56 +0000

[…] Once again, it’s a new year and, as usual, people be acting crazy, yo. So the big numbers have changed on the calendar…yay. Big whoop. The smaller ones change every second, every hour, every day and every thirty days 4. And those are the ones that really count. Success is how you collect your seconds and all that. […]

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Getting There Is Also Your Life | AJATT | Mi Cuaderno de Español — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 17:40:54 +0000

By: Ronin Samurai: Go for Nuggets | Samurai Mind Online

Ronin Samurai: Go for Nuggets | Samurai Mind Online — Sun, 09 Jun 2013 11:38:49 +0000

[…] The journey of getting used to a language is so psychologically long that it can’t merely be a means to an end. It must become an end in itself. It must become its own joy, its own reward. And this perspective, this mental state, doesn’t require too much imagination or discipline or training to reach. Anyone who’s been on a road trip with friends knows: the destination is almost incidental. […]

By: Kayla

Kayla — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 20:47:59 +0000

If you’re aiming for “perfection” you’ll never get there because nobody is perfect. I am sure you don’t speak your native language perfectly either, so don’t worry. 🙂
Maybe you can read manga already but you aren’t able to read books with ease yet. That’s fine, just keep using the language every day and don’t forget to have fun!

By: Conor

Conor — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 17:16:42 +0000

I think part of that could be habit, it’s what they were used to, but I think it’s mostly the fact that the human mind by design seems to make the past seem better than it really was (unearned nostalgia is a very real thing). The way I see it, there are some things for everyone that we can do to make the journey itself rewarding, like language learning for us on this site. I doubt that these girls enjoyed the millions of minutes reaching their triumph, and I have my own triumphs that when I really think about it didn’t justify the unhappy road to them.

By: Week in Review (5.24 to 5.31) | Callistonian.net

Week in Review (5.24 to 5.31) | Callistonian.net — Fri, 31 May 2013 11:40:46 +0000

[…] constantly posts great things at AJATT, but I’ve decided to share this one, Getting There is Also Your Life, as it applies to anyone who’s trying to accomplish anything, to get […]

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 31 May 2013 03:34:24 +0000

Unfortunately with these success stories doubt starts to seep in for me. I sometimes get the feeling “sure THAT guy could reach fluency but what if I never get there? What if I’m the exception? After all I was never good with school / I have ADD / blahblahblah”. And over time it starts to wear on me a little, like it’s the elephant in the room I try to keep ignoring. I gotta say though a bit of my doubts have been eased with this series of posts. I’m at the intermediate stage myself and I can relate to pretty much everything in this series.

By: Rou

Rou — Thu, 30 May 2013 22:35:50 +0000

“You spend millions of minutes to reach one triumph, one moment, then you spend maybe a thousand minutes enjoying it. If you were unhappy through those millions of minutes, what good is the thousand minutes of triumph?”

This part intrigues me. It does so because I keep hearing stories of people who achieved success through pain and tears, usually either because someone (usually their parents) forced them to or they forced themselves. And often the story would end with them saying they wouldn’t have done it any other way.

For example, I read Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother – she forced her daughters from very young age to play piano and to learn to play as quickly as possible. Obviously the two of them became VERY good at it eventually. And while the younger daughter ended up rebelling against the training, they both said at the end that they were grateful for what their mother put them through.

By: Livonor

Livonor — Thu, 30 May 2013 20:32:55 +0000

I realize something like that some time ago, what really matters isn’t what you do (the method, the techniques..) but what you think (your philosophy / mindset)

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Thu, 30 May 2013 16:47:45 +0000

Philosophically speaking, a great post! Lots of good points. It took me 1.2yrs to finish RTK1. I did it with a full-time job, wife, son, etc. After finishing 1/2 the book, which coincidentally seems about where most people have this epiphany, I just stopped caring for the end and holy shit did the end come, and fast! Just like, oh wait… nm.

Sometimes, now, when I TRY and read an [Japanese] article, I struggle.
When I JUST read an article, I flow right through it.

フレヂィー