By: SamSSamuels1

SamSSamuels1 — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:44:10 +0000

RT @ajatt: A man-made system you can’t change is a cult.
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By: ajatt

ajatt — Sun, 19 May 2013 21:00:13 +0000

A man-made system you can’t change is a cult.
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By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:29:22 +0000

Nuance is hard to find, and harder to master.

By: Kimura

Kimura — Sun, 29 Jul 2012 06:46:36 +0000

I think I finally get why I was feeling so burned out. My studying had turned into a rigid system: go do these reviews, go listen to Japanese music while coding and not other music, go to #AJATT Movie Night every Monday and Learn Japanese Through Music every Thursday (which was disappointing because I can’t use a mic so I was always left out of karaoke)… Everything had become “must do this, must do that”. Tofugu’s ebook says in one of the very first day-lessons that “should do” and “must do” are dangerous phrases, because you only have so many “willpower trees” per day, and gotta-dos use them up like a tree-punching Steve?.

So, I just let it all loose. The only “should do” now is “should do SOMETHING Japanese every day”, and the “what” is now “whatever the heck I feel like doing”. I still keep Anki and WaniKani at the top priority for “consider doing these first”, and anything else I just do if I feel like it.

(Also, I think the other thing Movie Night and LJTM were doing was making me feel bad about how much I suck at understanding spoken Japanese, and I know I need to get better, but I was looking too far up the echeladder when climbing the more reachable rungs will actually feel like progress instead of “bluh bluh 分かれない～！”.)

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 18:37:53 +0000

Be like water, my friend ;) Cheers, Andrew

By: blackbrich

blackbrich — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 22:32:21 +0000