Comments on: You Have Only Three Choices

By: Make Every Day a New Year’s Day: Small Samurai | Samurai Mind Online

Make Every Day a New Year’s Day: Small Samurai | Samurai Mind Online — Fri, 13 Dec 2013 12:47:23 +0000

[…] with the “neutrino” of small actions accumulating to immersion in Japanese. The “mediocre choice that leads to excellence” can be applied to other things that you want to shift in your […]

By: Mariah

Mariah — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 02:42:58 +0000

Just wanted to share a little win with everyone. I’m reading a murder mystery novel （ガリレオの苦悩） and listening to a molecular physics lecture from Kyoto University on Youtube. I was putting in sentences from my book to my SRS, and I had just learned a new word, and a minute later I heard the word in the video. I’m like “No way! I JUST learned that word! This is awesome!” For those who are curious, it’s 合理的。 Getting closer to fluency every day~

By: Amphy64

Amphy64 — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 08:30:27 +0000

I’m not sure the idea that option 3.1 is worse than doing nothing always applies. It EXACTLY describes how I’m finding RTK at this point, doesn’t mean it’s not helpful to do it anyway.

By: Rodhi

Rodhi — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 00:25:54 +0000

Khatzumoto, man! Japanese is my third language and when my brother and I were very young, we decided to learn English but we could not afford to pay. Many of the ideas we came up together (which I’ve been using for Japanese) resembles a lot what you explain in your site. It makes me pretty happy to see there are minds alike in this world although I think yours is way more hardcore than mine. Anyway, thank you for the suggestions of resources, the inspiration and all the other bulls##t you post here. Pretty legit. I’m taking some from you and following my way to master Japanese.
Wish you the best.

By: Pingfa

Pingfa — Thu, 05 Dec 2013 20:15:58 +0000

“It’s the mediocre choice that leads to excellence”
Eh, this is a nice quote. Consistent mediocrity is far better than infrequent bursts of excellence.
It’s the only thing that’s sustainable. Mediocre is one’s default mode, excellence is an abnormality.

This is why ‘lazy’ people tend to be more productive than ‘hard workers’ – the most ‘hard working’ people may strain themselves for a few hours, but then they spend the rest of the day unconscious. Hard work breeds slackers.