/the-blessing-of-forgetting/ 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 /the-blessing-of-forgetting/#comment-1000004358 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 05:27:22 +0000 /?p=22761#comment-1000004358 On the same line, I find forgetting to be a useful tool when speaking in a foreign language. It’s tough and weird, but I try to forget my native language as much as possible so that I’m forced to think within the bounds of the words and concepts that I know in the foreign language. For example, I don’t know the words for “revolutionize” or “cancel” in the foreign language well enough to use them actively, but because I have “forgotten” the English terms for these concepts, I’m not tempted to try and say them in the foreign language (and sit there with a pained look on my face in the middle of the conversation).

]]> /the-blessing-of-forgetting/#comment-328285 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:53:35 +0000 /?p=22761#comment-328285 Hm an interesting post.defintely ,these things can placed under the category goes without saying as Strawberry Vibe mentioned 🙂

]]> /the-blessing-of-forgetting/#comment-327561 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 14:55:31 +0000 /?p=22761#comment-327561 I think this advice could be filed under the category: Things that “go without saying” sometimes need to be said the most. Thanks for this motivating article 🙂

]]> /the-blessing-of-forgetting/#comment-327336 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 11:11:33 +0000 /?p=22761#comment-327336 […] I’m trying to practice a little bit each day, so I suck less than I did when I started.   Khatzumoto recently got all neuroplastic on us and spit it like this:  “Your mind, your body, your skills are […]

]]> /the-blessing-of-forgetting/#comment-327322 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 07:59:52 +0000 /?p=22761#comment-327322 Does remind a little of as Alan Watts put it: “A scholar tries to learn something everyday; a student of Buddhism tries to unlearn something daily.” I see very little difference in the plasticity involved in be it coming to walk again after a stroke, or coming to understand the world in a different language. Either way, you have to empty your cup before being able to fill it up with something new. 🙂

]]> /the-blessing-of-forgetting/#comment-327015 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:51:44 +0000 /?p=22761#comment-327015 Ditto. Constant contact. (Just keep in contact with the thing.)

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