Comments on: Immersion: Go With The Best Bad Idea — Pick One and Run

By: The First World Problem is Choice, Or: Which Language Should I Learn? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 03:07:42 +0000

[…] make the best choice. Make a doable decision now knowing what you know now, using what you have now. There will be no regrets. Regret is just information you didn’t have at the time. Using that […]

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How To Use This Website | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:45:58 +0000

[…] wrong thing. And that is fine. You wanna know why? Because when life and limb are not at risk, wrong action is easier to correct than inaction. There is only one “the” wrong thing, and that is to do nothing. So, go. Do. Act. And […]

By: Kentucky Fright Toriniku

Kentucky Fright Toriniku — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 21:44:21 +0000

So you had 5 other worse/just as bad ideas to write about..? lol.

It’s great advice, especially paired up with this other gem: always finish your shit. Even if you’re pulling your hair yelling, “It’s shitshitshitshitshit!”

By: Anna

Anna — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:03:44 +0000

Just tell them to commit to what they plan to do for one full month (or three), then after 3 months, have them report back, they will find out whether their “curricula” work or not

By: Jack Cotton-Brown

Jack Cotton-Brown — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 23:33:02 +0000

But inaction is a kind of action *mind blown*

By: Sholum

Sholum — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 02:16:43 +0000

Don’t forget about the utility of action. Action almost always has more utility than doing nothing. With the time lost, energy spent, and usefulness of the things gained, action will always be better than inaction.
If you fail at your action, you will have learned something and be better prepared for your next action; if you succeed you will have the exact same; if you do nothing, you’ll have wasted your time and gained nothing.

By: 名前

名前 — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 20:06:27 +0000

The opportunity cost of implementing a bad choice is much less than the cost of constantly worrying over which choice to make.
Something like that?

By: 魔法少女☆かなたん

魔法少女☆かなたん — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 19:09:32 +0000

I feel like I should say something economics-sounding about “opportunity cost” here, but I’m not sure if I have a point. Anyway, good food for thought.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:46:10 +0000

Agreed completely, just pick something and go. Don't worry about whether it's the best way or not, you can sort that out later, what matters more is simply doing something, taking some action of some sort. Not making a decision is a decision - you've decided not to act. Cheers, Andrew

By: Romuś

Romuś — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 15:49:25 +0000

Unlike Khatz I don’t know many ways to get things done, but there is one sure way to not do something- not doing it. The best way to not do it is never even start it in the first place. And finally, to never even start it you have to stop thinking about it. Belive me it works 99.999…% of the time.

By: Jack Cotton-Brown

Jack Cotton-Brown — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 02:19:26 +0000

Failure many times over leads to success. Bad ideas are meant to be fun though! I actually can’t think of something I’ve done recently that I would consider a bad idea. Let’s see… I spoke to a bunch of girls at school in Japanese by myself and made loads of mistakes… good idea. I finished pokemon white all in Japanese… good idea. I volunteered to teach Japanese highschool students about Australian culture… good idea. I watched a bunch of T.V, some of which was boring, some of which was interesting… good idea. I downloaded a free anki deck and started doing pre-packaged sentence reps… good idea. I started making MCD’s, I didn’t know how to make them properly but I started anyway… good idea, I now know how this MCD thing works.

The only bad idea’s I’ve had have been lack of ideas, and therefore lack of action. 続け活動がなしの時間.

By: Pingfa

Pingfa — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:16:27 +0000

Indeed, “regret is just information you didn’t have at the time.”
If you don’t know, you don’t know. Sitting there tensing your head won’t change that.
To paraphrase another Khatz quote, “It’s not ‘I learn so I can do this’, it’s ‘I do this, and therefore I learn”

By: Carl

Carl — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 05:48:19 +0000

This is the type of post that frees me up to do whatever I want with my Korean. “So what, if going to a class is a bad idea. At least, I’m doing something. Who cares how I’m learning Korean, at least I’m learning it.”

Thank you again for these posts.