Comments on: The Now Habit: Language Acquisition as a Long-Term Project /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/ 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 /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-1000565711 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 20:40:44 +0000 /?p=319#comment-1000565711 […] Were your parents imperfect in raising you? If they’re human, they almost certainly were. Recounti…. It is not a place from which we can thrive. Plus, if everything you do wrong is their fault, then is everything you do right to their credit? Why or why not? Are we supposed to take personal credit for our successes but assign all the blame for our failures to the people who raised us. That’s awfully convenient. Success has many willing fathers but failure is an orphan, huh? […]

]]> By: Do Not Look Directly At Sun. May Cause Schlep Blindness. | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-1000015591 Wed, 01 May 2013 01:37:36 +0000 /?p=319#comment-1000015591 […] Sun is too bright to look at. It can literally, physically hurt to look directly at the big goal. Looking at the metaphorical sun can throw you into a dizzying tailspin of despair and avoidance. So don’t. Look, that is. Enjoy the biggie 2, but don’t look at it. Focus back here. […]

]]> By: The Clicking Point: Maybe You Do Need to Do Less and Read More | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-1000004451 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 02:37:36 +0000 /?p=319#comment-1000004451 […] was a book; I’ve written about it; AJATT has been on the front page of Google for timeboxing; Neil Fiore himself left a comment on this blog, but here I am procrastinating?! I felt like a total schmuck. A […]

]]> By: Unscheduling Language Acquisition | Jeff弁 /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-256895 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:09:29 +0000 /?p=319#comment-256895 […] I realized recently that the change I made to my approach is actually similar to the idea of “unscheduling” from a book that happens to be a recommendation on AJATT. […]

]]> By: Dax /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-123425 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:56:00 +0000 /?p=319#comment-123425 “That’s what you get when you put people through years of “sit down, shut up and do as you’re told”; you get people who only know how to be managed and be led — you get sheep.”

So true. 

]]> By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 9: Birthlines And Timeboxing | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-59237 Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:15:06 +0000 /?p=319#comment-59237 […] timeboxing” is useful for easing yourself into things that would otherwise get unnecessarily avoided. Things like, I dunno, filling in tax forms. For writing AJATT itself I mostly use […]

]]> By: Critical Frequency: A Brand New Way of Looking At Language Exposure | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-58236 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:37:34 +0000 /?p=319#comment-58236 […] has taught me anything it’s that…people try too hard to do hard things. Indeed, it is people’s puritanical desire to do hard things that leads to failure and procrastination. The winners are those that choose “strategic laziness“. It’s sort of like the […]

]]> By: Birthlines, Part 3: If You Want To Win, Stop Trying To Finish | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-57311 Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:18:48 +0000 /?p=319#comment-57311 […] Because when you say “Finish X”, you start to conflate starting it with finishing. Since finishing is what’s on your to-do list, you start to think that doing = finishing. And since the project is big, the doing is big, and if the doing is finishing, well, then, you’d better get some rest now before you even try. Better get in some Hulu. Better relax before the pain. Better have some calm before the storm. Classic avoidance behavior (procrastination). […]

]]> By: Birthlines, Part 4: If You Want to Succeed, Start Off On The Wrong Foot | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-57204 Sun, 10 Oct 2010 03:47:52 +0000 /?p=319#comment-57204 […] this thing, for, you know…hours…days…as long as it takes. This is all stuff that Neil Fiore talks […]

]]> 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 /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-52771 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:58:40 +0000 /?p=319#comment-52771 […] it to work, and the result is usually analysis paralysis – we just don’t do…anything. We procrastinate; we spin our wheels; we stare into space; we go to Facebook; we check our email. Anything but deal […]

]]> By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 7: Isn’t Timeboxing Just A Waste of Time? | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-50500 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:01:03 +0000 /?p=319#comment-50500 […] pieces, you own it; you control it; you understand it. You can’t fear it and you can’t fantasize about it. All that’s left is to do. To play with it. That’s what timeboxing is […]

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Tortoises and Hares /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-34039 Sun, 14 Feb 2010 09:30:18 +0000 /?p=319#comment-34039 […] So hares procrastinate and appear to shirk. It’s perhaps a subconscious(?) way for them to hijack/sabotage their own system of cruelty and give themselves at least some carrots, water and sweet grapes between the beatings, hunger and thirst. Neil Fiore talks all about this in “The Now Habit”. […]

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Processes Not Results, Or: Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Life I Learned Washing Dishes /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-30605 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:26:06 +0000 /?p=319#comment-30605 […] Just like at kindergarten! Steve Pavlina talked about it on his site, and Neil Fiore said it in the Now Habit: stop trying to finish tasks, focus on starting them instead…start enough times and the […]

]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Why Do People Who Have All the Time in the World Get Nothing Done? /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-26484 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:51:33 +0000 /?p=319#comment-26484 […] was a major step forward, but by itself it was not enough. The Now Habit taught me to let go of being perfect and just get on with it. And the 80-20 Principle taught me to […]

]]> By: New Years Thai Language Resolution With the NOW Habit /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-14779 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:00:05 +0000 /?p=319#comment-14779 […] Time Dot Com: Why Do People Who Have All the Time in the World Get Nothing Done? which sent me to The Now Habit: Language Acquisition as a Long-Term Project where I found The Now […]

]]> By: Catherine /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-14584 Sun, 21 Dec 2008 11:36:34 +0000 /?p=319#comment-14584 Due to this post, I was so excited that I ordered The Now Habit and had to shipped to the UK, to meet me on arrival (xmas holiday).

Waking up early two mornings in a row (jet lag), I read it from cover to cover. Talk about exciting, the words spoke straight to me. I can’t wait to get home to start on it.

And now, instead of sharing a language learning to-do list, my New Years Resolution post will be all about how The Now Habit fits.

Off I go… to buy copies for friends…

]]> By: Neil Fiore /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-14326 Tue, 16 Dec 2008 04:49:41 +0000 /?p=319#comment-14326 hi Khatzumoto,
thanks for your enthusiasm for The Now Habit: Overcoming Procrastination with Guilt-Free Play. Also, at www.audible.com under Self-Development Audio Books. See www.neilfiore.com for more CDs and “Awaken Your Strongest Self” for putting your higher/human brain in charge of your life–instead of your fearful, self-doubting ego.
Tips: shift from “I have to finish” to “When can I start for 30 minutes?” to give your brain a clear image when to show up and for how long I will be in prison with a critic before I get to have fun.
See blog: www.neilfiore.blogspot.com for more tools
Best Wishes, Neil Fiore

]]> By: Rob /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-13839 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:38:58 +0000 /?p=319#comment-13839 Sorry – off topic. Yahoo知恵袋のサイトで、このサイトのリンクを見つけた。映画大辞典と言うんですが、このサイトで誰でも映画についてのコメントかレビューを載せることができる。　結構面白いんだよ。

www.jtnews.jp/dict.html

]]> By: Eric /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-13838 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:31:50 +0000 /?p=319#comment-13838 Anyone else buy off iTunes? I don’t know how I can get this PDF he keeps talking about. Quite irritating!
I have gotten PDFs with iTunes purchases before but nothing with this one.

]]> By: Rebeca /the-now-habit-language-acquisition-as-a-long-term-project/#comment-13831 Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:58:35 +0000 /?p=319#comment-13831 I read this already!!! 🙂

One of my faves….

I read it about 2 years ago. and then i threw it away. And then this year, i missed some of the strategies on it and i had to buy it again.

Yuppp…mine is all crayoned (i don’t use highlighter, the paper is too thin)

ANd this book was truly one of the ones that changed my life with its simple and yet so unheard of topic of CHOICE.
I can’t begin to describe how just the use of that word helps me in my procrastination.

I love Neil Fiore 🙂

IN FACT…you should read his other book: Awaken your strongest self. OMG. ilove that one. Its basically all the things he talks about in TNH, but it goes more in depth.

I also recommend OPTIMAL THINKING (not by Fiore), which im reading right now

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