KanjiPosterStop trying to read in massive chunks of time Most of life is waiting. Most of life is disjoint snippets of time: two, three, five minutes here or there. That’s when you read. Stop trying or waiting for some golden multi-hour block: Assume that you’re not gonna get it, because even if you did get it, your powers concentration wouldn’t...
The big, central goal, the sun around which our actions orbit, can overwhelm and disorient us with its size and power and magnitude. But you can take yourself and other people to any extreme of excellence or lameness if you narrow their mental focus away from the debilitatingly magnitudinous core goal and towards productive, forward-moving, helpful minutiae. In other...
This entry is part 3 of 8 in the series Intermediate AngstThus spake Hangul Fangirl (@HangulFangirl): “ How do you get past the feeling that you’re not progressing and end up forgetting to keep going? Self-study is hard for...
…we may be the sons of whomsoever we will. Households there are of noblest intellects; choose the one into which you wish to be adopted; you will inherit not merely their name, but even their property… ~ Seneca A child doesn’t compare himself to his parents. He’s glad to leech off and learn from them. Learn from your sempais...
This entry is part 7 of 8 in the series Social Resistance“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.” African Proverb There you are. Immersing. Shadowing. Japanese books everywhere. Japanese sounds in your ear. And you’re starting to get a bit of negative attention. A bit of IRL trolling. They’re against you. They’re making fun...
“Much mischief results from our taking a moral position on matters which are not basically moral matters at all.” ~ Maxwell Maltz “More defeats and failures are due to mental blindness than to moral deviations.” ~ Raymond Holliwell 「不管白貓黑貓，能抓到老鼠就是好貓」 “It doesn’t matter whether it’s a white cat or a black cat; a cat that catches mice is a good...
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