Comments on: Just Do One: Lowering Your Standards and Using Patterns from Addictions to Achieve Success /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/ 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: Trauma: Did Your Childhood Mess You Up, Man? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-1000565703 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:37:07 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-1000565703 […] up as healing. Condescension dressed up as sympathy. It’s the bigotry of low expectations (not low standards, which are good, but low expectations — expecting permanent failure, permanent debilitation), and we’re […]

]]> By: The never-ending moment of commitment - Gretta Vosper /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-1000564223 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 19:42:32 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-1000564223 […] Over the past year, I’ve dipped way below that level of commitment. But I just read a blog article (on learning a new language, for heaven’s sake!) that reminded me of something I SAY often, […]

]]> By: Buttocks and Binary Fission | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-1000056040 Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:37:10 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-1000056040 […] Do half of them. Still too much? Do half of that. Too big? Keep dividing. Maybe you’ll end up just doing one. And that’s […]

]]> By: Nucular Weapons | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-315456 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 02:37:55 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-315456 […] kai on Just Do One: Lowering Your Standards and Using Patterns from Addictions to Achieve Success […]

]]> By: kai /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-315029 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:15:06 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-315029 Well I’m not sure it should be about forgiveness. I’m thinking if you want to learn the language, if you like the language, if you want to learn a Kanji, you will learn a Kanji. So yes you may be satisfied after learning one Kanji, but if you enjoyed the experience you would still learn another one, but only because you would enjoy it, not because you wouldn’t be able to forgive yourself otherwise. Basically the more easily something can satisfy you by giving you a sense of achievement of something you love, the more addictive it should be, and the more you should want to do it. I understand what you mean though. Like if you feel accomplished then you might feel like slacking, if the accomplishment is of something you love, and it’s easy I would think it would urge you to do more.

]]> By: If you’re interested, it’s for you | Spanish Only /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-194692 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 17:50:16 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-194692 […] Some people say to read at your level. Others say to read at your interest. The truth is that, before you know it, they’re the same thing. Bookstore categorizations are meaningless; ‘young-adult’ doesn’t mean easy, and ‘economics/politics’ doesn’t mean hard. The only gage you have is your internal addiction-meter. Does it jump at a certain book or subject? Go for it. Feed your addictions. […]

]]> By: 1 ≫ 0 | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-185365 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:01:25 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-185365 […] Just do 1. Be Sociable, Share! TweetNotes: That crap is only true in theoretical mathematics. It just doesn’t seem theoretical because negative numbers have become so common and useful. ↩away from the real number line ↩AFAIK — I could be wrong ↩OK, the Industrial Revolution ↩ Read on: […]

]]> By: Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-174122 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 15:06:06 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-174122 […] up, all that matters is that progress is being made. I know that sometimes it can feel like we’re lowering our standards by just striving to make progress, but then again, if you are like me, who had month long gaps in […]

]]> By: Don’t underestimate yourself – stop TRYING to learn and LET your brain do the work « Mandarin From Scratch /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-100109 Fri, 27 May 2011 20:50:41 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-100109 […] just ends up being counterproductive in my case. For more on the subject, confer this article /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-fro… I look forward to your comments and questions, and thanks for […]

]]> By: Monochrome /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-93411 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:16:26 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-93411 I also think that I love you for this.

]]> By: Dax /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-86130 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:47:06 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-86130 Vielen Dank Herr Oliver. Ich will viele Wörter und Sätze lernen . Alles gute.

Thank you very much man, this will kick start my German .

]]> By: Stop Trying Hard | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-69941 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 03:11:12 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-69941 […] and “just showing up” are type (R). They seem so easy, so doable, so simple, that they couldn’t possibly […]

]]> By: meerkat /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-64737 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:27:58 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-64737 Is this self-deception? Because I’m terribly bad at that, and it seems like the idea is to do all your reps by promising yourself you only have to do one, because you know if you can get started you’ll do them all. But I would go, “Just do one. You only have to do one!” and then I would go “I don’t believe you! If I do one you’re just going to keep telling me to do another, no matter how many I do! I am going to do something else instead!”

]]> By: Lazy Kanji Cards: A New (?) SRS Card Format | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-60648 Wed, 17 Nov 2010 09:49:56 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-60648 […] a life isn’t worth living. If you’re going to be here…have fun. By all means, become an addict. But with a twist: get addicted to good things. Get addicted to constructive things… Fun is the hook for both forming and maintaining those constructive […]

]]> By: Probability Over Certainty, Or: Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Immersion, I Learned from the Miller-Rabin Primality Test | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-52714 Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:01:13 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-52714 […] Doing just one SRS rep may not make it so that all your SRS reps get done, but it demm sure raises the probability that that will happen, more than sitting there doing nothing does. (The wording on this blog is getting weirder and weirder). […]

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Language-Learning As Gun Violence: Frequency and Quantity /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-37683 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 13:40:34 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-37683 […] . Plus I just enjoy negative-sounding metaphors for positive activities — everything from drug abuse to cancer to, now, gun […]

]]> By: Kym /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-20076 Fri, 15 May 2009 09:05:53 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-20076 Yo Ive gotta say what you are getting at is very Zen. One breath, only one breath. This moment is the only moment that exists. Very cool. I will try to practice this mentality and stop beating myself up!^^
There is a saying in the Dhammapada by the Buddha where he says something like… If you spend all of your time in the winter thinking about summer, you will never enjoy winter (which is a huge waste)…
Peace

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Intermediate Goals, Mini-Dreams /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-16517 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 16:54:28 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-16517 […] frequently discussed using ultra-short-term goals on the level of hours, minutes and seconds. And long-term goals on the level of several months and […]

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » What It Takes To Be Great 2: AJATT and Malcolm McDowell’s Outliers…wait… /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-14158 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:05:34 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-14158 […] any daily progress was better than no progress. Anything was better than zero. And it was such a low standard (”just do something“) it was such a “come on, man, just try one — it grows […]

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Link-O-Mania: Mostly Japanese Websites — Blogs, Think Tanks and Some Inspiration /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success/#comment-11672 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:20:45 +0000 /just-do-one-lowering-your-standards-and-using-patterns-from-addictions-to-achieve-success#comment-11672 […] really progressing, filled with insight like this: “Maybe this is the key to productivity: just getting started.” Read the whole for deeper […]

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