Comments on: Showing Up

By: Spiritdancer

Spiritdancer — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 22:39:44 +0000

Awesome!

By: Laura

Laura — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 04:00:49 +0000

I love this post. When my kids were growing up and they would tell me, “I can’t do_____________,” I’d say, “Have you tried it 100 times yet?” Of course, they’d say no, so I’d tell them to come back to me after they’d tried it 100 times. Once my son asked me, “What if I try it 100 times and I still can’t do it?” I said, then we do something very special…we do it 1000 times. I came up with this when my daughter was 5 and she “couldn’t” learn to do the grapevine step in her dance class. Since the age of 3 she had said she wanted to be a ballet dancer when she grew up, and she was dead serious about it. So not being able to do the grapevine step had her very upset. I asked her if she’d practiced it 100 times yet? She said no, so she and I worked on it together, and she got it after about 10 tries. She was also terrible at keeping a beat. She could not for the life of her “naturally” clap to the beat of a song. As you can imagine, this made dancing somewhat challenging! So my son and I would clap to songs with her everyday. We told her we’d clap to 1000 songs if we had to. Of course, she learned how to clap to songs. I’m sure you already know the ending to this story…she grew up to dance with a professional ballet company. She, obviously, was not inherently talented but she did learn to work at what she wanted.

By: Always Underdo. Perfection Is Death. | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Mon, 25 Feb 2019 23:37:22 +0000

[…] low standards. Have wide standards. Breathe. Stay in the game. Stay alive. Don’t be good. Just show up. It’s far more important to practice writing hiragana at all, than it is to write them well! […]

By: How Many Characters Do I Need to Learn? - Mandarin Blueprint

How Many Characters Do I Need to Learn? - Mandarin Blueprint — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 04:40:12 +0000

[…] that the progress is taking effect, that you have the ability to go all the way if you just keep showing up, being curious, and reminding yourself of how much it will benefit you to stick with it. That […]

By: SwimyGreen

SwimyGreen — Sun, 17 Jan 2016 08:02:45 +0000

I was just rereading this article today to get my motivation back up for Chinese study. I already know that I can get Mandarin down, that there is nothing standing in my way, I just need to read more manga and play more games! I was surprised today to find that Age of Empries 2 on steam actually has Chinese dialogue. Now I can spam the in game commands for default chat and have my soldiers yell in Chinese. Pretty sweet. Now if only the font size was larger…

Anyway, wherever you are right now Khatz, stay cool. Like the way you’ve made us all realize we’re cool inside.

By: fazufazu

fazufazu — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 21:29:45 +0000

I know this article is at least 8 years old, but it has taken me that long to stumble upon it. No matter. All I just want to say that it is one of the most inspirational and empowering thing I’ve read in a long time. It’s such a boost. Kudos!

By: Romuś

Romuś — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 23:41:28 +0000

When I don’t have red I use blue. – Pablo Picasso
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By: Hugo

Hugo — Mon, 24 Nov 2014 19:33:20 +0000

“Sucking is always the first step on the path to greatness”

This phrase inspired me

Thanks Khatz

By: Livonor

Livonor — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:39:42 +0000

like the great philosophe Heavy Weapons Guy once said:

“you’re all babies, it’s funny to me!”

Nothing more need to be said….

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Samurai Career Advice | Samurai Mind Online — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 13:03:28 +0000

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By: All Guitar All The Time?: Samurai Music Challenge | Samurai Mind Online

All Guitar All The Time?: Samurai Music Challenge | Samurai Mind Online — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:56:04 +0000

[…] times instead of expecting to be perfect. Khatzumoto explains that most important part is showing up, not expecting greatness: Adults have this competence fetish; they cling desperately to their […]

By: Create Your Learning Environment | Samurai Mind Online

Create Your Learning Environment | Samurai Mind Online — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 12:07:09 +0000

[…] 13, 2012 by taijuando One of the more fun lessons I’ve gotten from ajatt and other sources is that you become what you surround yourself with. If you want to learn […]

By: “Dude, suckin’ at something is the first step to being sorta good at something.” « (p)latitudes

Sun, 10 Jun 2012 13:21:46 +0000

[…] in his ‘Showing Up‘ post, he gives the following […]

By: When perfectionism becomes an obstacle to progress - Hacking Chinese

When perfectionism becomes an obstacle to progress - Hacking Chinese — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:29:47 +0000

[…] do this. Studying something is always better than studying nothing. Or, put in another way, showing up is what really counts, not the imagined quality of practise you don’t get. Don’t aim to […]

By: Ken Seeroi

Ken Seeroi — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:33:02 +0000

It matters less what you’re doing than that you keep doing it.
Like I was in Shinjuku last weekend, talking to this dude from Pakistan. His Japanese was really good, so I asked him, like I always do when I meet someone who’s good at Japanese, How’d you do it? His answer? Working in an izakaya six days a week. Showing up and having to speak Japanese. He basically put himself into an environment where he had no choice but to use Japanese.

By: They Call Meh Chuck Norris

They Call Meh Chuck Norris — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:11:04 +0000

You basically just have to wing it. Take actual books in your L2, and then translate them. Over time you will have so many sentences that the words themselves are just going to fill in the blanks. Then you can just look for phrases or specific words.

By: Esme

Esme — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:04:38 +0000

Wohooo.!!! I feel pumped let’s go learn some KANJI, YEA! lol, you’re the first person khatzumoto who has ever come outright with the “genes or environment” debate and gone “well DUH it’s environment” haha. Oh, btw, can anyone point me in the direction of some good sentence books to start with? Or ways of finding out what people are saying in dramas and anime so I can translate them?? Thank you!

By: Bad Goal, Good Goal | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Bad Goal, Good Goal | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 02:09:11 +0000

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By: Screw the schedule – Days 40-78 | The Spoon that Feeds

Screw the schedule – Days 40-78 | The Spoon that Feeds — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:06:44 +0000

[…] answer to this is simply that Silverspoon gives me the ability to show up. Also, SS is emailing me Japanese shizzle to look at every day at least 3 times a day. In my 15 […]