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Why You Should Keep Listening Even If You Don’t Understand

February 1, 2009
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Why You Should Keep Listening Even If You Don’t Understand

Like I’ve said before…the set of tools/methods described on this site…I don’t know why it all works; looking at and thinking about how people learn their native language, it just all seemed obvious to me. In other words, I knew what I needed to do to achieve fluency…but not much more. One of the more apparently “controversial” pieces of...

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What It Takes to Be Great 4: Capablanca

December 15, 2008
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Again in response to this post, I received the following email from a very handsome reader named santayana. working hard in the proper direction as the one and only method to achieve success and to be hailed as a genius? sounds good, after all everyone can do it if they’re really bent to stop being lazy… but sadly, i...

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What It Takes to Be Great 3: Follow-Up

December 15, 2008
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Hey. Remember that last rambling train wreck of a post ? There was a comment made on it by Terry of this Yahoo Group that was just so super-cool and lucid, I felt compelled to share it with the world. So here it is [this was...

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What It Takes To Be Great 2: AJATT and Malcolm McDowell’s Outliers…wait…

December 12, 2008
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Howdy! Is not a word that I usually use. By now you’ve probably heard about this already, but just in case you haven’t, let’s talk about it here. Malcolm McDowell, who once tried to destroy the galaxy so that he could re-enter an energy ribbon in space where he could experience Paradise for the r… OK, not Malcolm McDowell....

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What It Takes To Be Great

October 5, 2008
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One day, I’m going to make an acronym for everything. Like, that last sentence will turn into: “ODIGTMAAFE”, and people will be all: “OMG!? AAFE?! LOL!”. Also, a little warning — there are going to be a lot of links. Break yo’ self! So, I’m sitting there, eating my curds and whey, when yet another good-looking reader (Gav) sends...

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Spaced Repetition Goes Mainstream?

May 7, 2008
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Jon B at 無国籍/Mukokuseki links to this Wired Magazine article on SuperMemo. This is really exciting stuff. In my own little way, I’ve been trying to spread the word about SRS (spaced repetition systems) as tools since a man named Chris Houser first told me about SuperMemo way back in 2004. As one quite aptly titled psychology paper put...

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