Comments on: Practical Tips on What To Do Instead of New Year’s Resolutions

By: Fight Battles, Not Wars | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Fight Battles, Not Wars | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 13:37:10 +0000

[…] New Year’s resolutions are a tactic and a decidedly crappy one at that. You need better tactics, tactics that can be executed more frequently than once every 365.24219878 days (google it); that’s almost the definition of a craptastic tactic; WTF are you doing using a tool you can’t even control? Aren’t there already enough things you don’t control? You need to add one? Come on, man. […]

By: Pingfa

Pingfa — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:51:49 +0000

“nothing’s more painful than doggedly continuing to go for something you don’t even want any more just because it’s something you thought you wanted, that you thought mattered, back in the past”
That it is, that it is. It’s a very strange behavioural quirk that applies to most humans. Even after it has become obvious that something has served its purpose (or not), even though they know it to be counterproductive, they insist on being a slave to it because of some false sense of identity they’ve set for themselves.
Well, either that or humans are just plain stupid. A baby chimp touches something and gets burned, it stays clear of it. A baby human never ceases to be stupid.
Which is why the only way to improve a human’s behaviour is by improving its environment.
Thus, ask not what you can do for your environment, but what your environment can do for you. 😉

By: Three weeks of Spanish incoming. « Aspirante poliglotta

Three weeks of Spanish incoming. « Aspirante poliglotta — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:54:54 +0000

[…] Khatzumoto’s tip, I would like to try a new experiment in order to focus my learning energies on a short (but […]

By: Three weeks of Spanish full immersion incoming. « Aspirante poliglotta

Three weeks of Spanish full immersion incoming. « Aspirante poliglotta — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:51:11 +0000

[…] Khatzumoto’s tip, I would like to try a new experiment in order to focus my learning energies on a short (but […]

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:26:01 +0000

This was a nice wake-up call in a sense because I had daily “goals” like “Read 30 minutes” and so on. Slashed them from my notes and put “Read 5 minutes of JoJo” “Read 5 minutes of Haruhi” “Play Persona 4 for 20 minutes” and so on. Extremely specific goals are far less “intimidating” and a lot more interesting than the generic ones.

By: Good Evaning

Good Evaning — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 04:17:38 +0000

Thank you for another good tip!

I am an aspiring polyglot and a firm believer in the power of 3-week habit formation.

goodevaning.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/new-moon-resolutions/

ありがと！

エヴァン

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 05:00:12 +0000

That’s weird coz I HATE this post and almost didn’t put it up, but I guess you always did enjoy the nuts-and-bolts stuff, J-dawg…I shall keep that in mind.

I hate giving detailed advice because too many people seem to try to follow it too closely and then end up hurting themselves. Or you get some people who analyze and argue it to death. Also, by the time I’m done giving it, I’ve usually obsoleted it already…I guess none of those are really bad things, though…every tool ever invented gets misused by some segment of the population…

Lol…I have eras now 🙂

By: Agent J

Agent J — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 23:50:59 +0000

One of the best posts in a while. Not 2007-2009 era khatz level stuff, but still better than usual. 😀

Triplets sound very nice.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 15:40:46 +0000

“I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” -Mitch Hedberg