Comments on: How To Accomplish Great Things: Small Victories, Winnable Games http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:37:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Stop Trying Hard. Try Easy. | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-174302 Stop Trying Hard. Try Easy. | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Thu, 08 Dec 2011 04:36:03 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-174302 [...] OftenDon’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on How To Accomplish Great Things: Small Victories, Winnable GamesDon’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on [...] [...] OftenDon’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on How To Accomplish Great Things: Small Victories, Winnable GamesDon’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on [...]

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]]> By: Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-174278 Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:12:53 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-174278 [...] Progress is progress. Stop making up fake hard rules. Make easy rules. Make easy games. Winnable games. [...] [...] Progress is progress. Stop making up fake hard rules. Make easy rules. Make easy games. Winnable games. [...]

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]]> By: Martin Ackerfors http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-148476 Martin Ackerfors Sun, 23 Oct 2011 08:07:24 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-148476 Great post and interesting thoughts. The use of games or game-like abilities when doing "real stuff" is a huge interest of mine. :) Are you familiar with Jane McGonigal and her "Reality is Broken"? She's a director at Institute for the Future and is specialised in the usage of games in this way, to become better, more effective or to overcome certain problems. I really recommend the book (I do think you'll like it, considering the post above :) ). I wrote a short post about her thoughts here: <a href="http://better-reality-games.com/the-reality-is-broken-and-how-i-took-mine-to-service-it-is-not-quite-finished-yet/" rel="nofollow">http://better-reality-games.com/the-reality-is-broken-and-how-i-took-mine-to-service-it-is-not-quite-finished-yet/ </a>And she held a TED lecture about how gaming can make the world a better place: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html </a>Enjoy! :)  Great post and interesting thoughts. The use of games or game-like abilities when doing “real stuff” is a huge interest of mine. :)

Are you familiar with Jane McGonigal and her “Reality is Broken”? She’s a director at Institute for the Future and is specialised in the usage of games in this way, to become better, more effective or to overcome certain problems. I really recommend the book (I do think you’ll like it, considering the post above :) ).

I wrote a short post about her thoughts here: better-reality-games.com/the-reality-is-broken-and-how-i-took-mine-to-service-it-is-not-quite-finished-yet/

And she held a TED lecture about how gaming can make the world a better place: www.ted.com/talks/jane_mcgonigal_gaming_can_make_a_better_world.html

Enjoy! :)  

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]]> By: Not Nothing | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-139240 Not Nothing | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:00:38 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-139240 [...] It Work, And Why Should You Care?Why Seconds And Not Hours? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on How To Accomplish Great Things: Small Victories, Winnable GamesWhy Seconds And Not Hours? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on So Should We Track and Log Every [...] [...] It Work, And Why Should You Care?Why Seconds And Not Hours? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on How To Accomplish Great Things: Small Victories, Winnable GamesWhy Seconds And Not Hours? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time on So Should We Track and Log Every [...]

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]]> By: Why Seconds And Not Hours? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-138937 Why Seconds And Not Hours? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:18:48 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-138937 [...] insist or…persist…in counting language exposure time in seconds? Because it’s a cheap win. It’s like timeboxing. It usurps the delay component of Piers Steel’s Temporal [...] [...] insist or…persist…in counting language exposure time in seconds? Because it’s a cheap win. It’s like timeboxing. It usurps the delay component of Piers Steel’s Temporal [...]

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]]> By: Andy http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-120934 Andy Sun, 31 Jul 2011 04:19:18 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-120934 ¡Hello! Thanks a lot for this great article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It gave me the motivation I needed to re-start doing two of the things I like the most: studying japanese and writing stories. I was forcing me too much and without realizing it I had lost the joy of doing the things I like the most. This article has given me a lot of exciting ideas I will put into practice. I had forgotten the miracles that ocurr when you live your "here" and "now" without caring about anything else. From the bottom of my heart: ¡THANKYOU VERY MUCH! ^_^! ¡Hello!
Thanks a lot for this great article!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It gave me the motivation I needed to re-start doing two of the things I like the most: studying japanese and writing stories. I was forcing me too much and without realizing it I had lost the joy of doing the things I like the most. This article has given me a lot of exciting ideas I will put into practice. I had forgotten the miracles that ocurr when you live your “here” and “now” without caring about anything else. From the bottom of my heart: ¡THANKYOU VERY MUCH! ^_^!

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]]> By: Don’t Plan Your Day, Plan Your Environment | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-79067 Don’t Plan Your Day, Plan Your Environment | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Mon, 21 Feb 2011 04:39:41 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-79067 [...] that’s why Japanese has to be fun. Because anything that’s not fun will get postponed into oblivion. “Later”. “When I have time”. “When I have the energy”. Yeah, [...] [...] that’s why Japanese has to be fun. Because anything that’s not fun will get postponed into oblivion. “Later”. “When I have time”. “When I have the energy”. Yeah, [...]

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]]> By: Okuri Ōkami http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-77484 Okuri Ōkami Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:06:45 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-77484 Have you read Don't Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor? A lot of your writing really seems to connect with what I've read from it. It's a book about positive reinforcement training--for you, your dog, your kids, your aunt, your dolphin, your llama, your whatever! And you seem to have it all figured out! Anyway, I hope you check that book out. :) Have you read Don’t Shoot the Dog by Karen Pryor? A lot of your writing really seems to connect with what I’ve read from it. It’s a book about positive reinforcement training–for you, your dog, your kids, your aunt, your dolphin, your llama, your whatever! And you seem to have it all figured out! Anyway, I hope you check that book out. :)

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]]> By: What Is AJATT Plus? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-64448 What Is AJATT Plus? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Sun, 12 Dec 2010 16:00:33 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-64448 [...] selected articles only] to help you “chunk” those articles into little pieces to play winnable games [...] [...] selected articles only] to help you “chunk” those articles into little pieces to play winnable games [...]

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]]> By: Book Review: Do It Badly And Ahead Of Time! Three Easy-To-Start Habits That Will Make You Awesome Possum | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-60442 Book Review: Do It Badly And Ahead Of Time! Three Easy-To-Start Habits That Will Make You Awesome Possum | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Mon, 15 Nov 2010 15:01:25 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-60442 [...] person who knows about the Pareto Principle, Parkinson’s Law, Temporal Motivation Theory, Operant Conditioning — even if she doesn’t know these concepts by name — this is [...] [...] person who knows about the Pareto Principle, Parkinson’s Law, Temporal Motivation Theory, Operant Conditioning — even if she doesn’t know these concepts by name — this is [...]

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]]> By: Birthlines, Part 3: If You Want To Win, Stop Trying To Finish | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-57312 Birthlines, Part 3: If You Want To Win, Stop Trying To Finish | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:20:51 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-57312 [...] you see, the thing is, you can’t finish. It’s not physically possible. “Finish” is not actionable. “Finish” [...] [...] you see, the thing is, you can’t finish. It’s not physically possible. “Finish” is not actionable. “Finish” [...]

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]]> 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 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-52767 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 Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:54:08 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-52767 [...] certain, perfect, ideal, Platonic thing that gets you The Desired Outcome. But if you do so many fun, easy, simple, short, quick, little things that The Desired Outcome has a 97% probability of happening, then, well…call it a win. It’s the [...] [...] certain, perfect, ideal, Platonic thing that gets you The Desired Outcome. But if you do so many fun, easy, simple, short, quick, little things that The Desired Outcome has a 97% probability of happening, then, well…call it a win. It’s the [...]

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]]> By: The Dream Manifesto: ~Do~ Reworked | Way of Becoming http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-52128 The Dream Manifesto: ~Do~ Reworked | Way of Becoming Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:18:14 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-52128 [...] top 5, it was merely in utility. Raised in a household of the kind where cleaning the house was a no-holds-barred, Michelangelo-ain’t-got-nothing-on-me, lifelong magnum opus, homework had become like forcing perfect song-writing; it just doesn’t work. You [...] [...] top 5, it was merely in utility. Raised in a household of the kind where cleaning the house was a no-holds-barred, Michelangelo-ain’t-got-nothing-on-me, lifelong magnum opus, homework had become like forcing perfect song-writing; it just doesn’t work. You [...]

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]]> 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. http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-50542 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. Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:35:14 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-50542 [...] human organism wants smaller pieces, then it should get them. The least we can do for ourselves is present work in appealing portions, even if the content of the work itself remains largely [...] [...] human organism wants smaller pieces, then it should get them. The least we can do for ourselves is present work in appealing portions, even if the content of the work itself remains largely [...]

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]]> By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3.5: Timeboxing Turns Work Into Play | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-47924 Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3.5: Timeboxing Turns Work Into Play | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:33:09 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-47924 [...] when we use our strengths and use our nature and use our short attention spans to do fun, instantly-rewarded little things that just so happen to produce long-term [...] [...] when we use our strengths and use our nature and use our short attention spans to do fun, instantly-rewarded little things that just so happen to produce long-term [...]

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]]> By: cvsr117 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-44923 cvsr117 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:38:38 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-44923 "For one thing, it occurred to me that I watch Stephen Chow movies and GET JOKES — verbal jokes! " Freakin' mo lei tau! “For one thing, it occurred to me that I watch Stephen Chow movies and GET JOKES — verbal jokes! ”

Freakin’ mo lei tau!

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]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 1: What and Why http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-44716 All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 1: What and Why Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:01:09 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-44716 [...] a fuller discussion of the whole Temporal Motivation Theory thing, you might want to check out the rather verbose article I wrote about winnable games, as well as the original TMT paper by Steel himself. In my humble, non-expert opinion, Steel has [...] [...] a fuller discussion of the whole Temporal Motivation Theory thing, you might want to check out the rather verbose article I wrote about winnable games, as well as the original TMT paper by Steel himself. In my humble, non-expert opinion, Steel has [...]

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]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Why The Way We Read Sucks and How To Fix It, Part 5: Examples Shown and Questions Answered http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-40530 All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Why The Way We Read Sucks and How To Fix It, Part 5: Examples Shown and Questions Answered Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:02:35 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-40530 [...] To make things easier for myself, these cards do not have links to actually audio files. In a real, live SRS, they would…I just wanted to save myself a few steps since this article is long already! … ‘Told you I was lazy [...] [...] To make things easier for myself, these cards do not have links to actually audio files. In a real, live SRS, they would…I just wanted to save myself a few steps since this article is long already! … ‘Told you I was lazy [...]

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]]> By: Language Learning Tips: Motivation « Korean in Kuwait http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-36661 Language Learning Tips: Motivation « Korean in Kuwait Sun, 28 Mar 2010 12:07:37 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-36661 [...] tactic for staying motivated is to shift your point of view when it comes to goal-setting. Khatzumoto has beaten this horse to death, so I’ll keep it brief. Small, achievable goals are much more [...] [...] tactic for staying motivated is to shift your point of view when it comes to goal-setting. Khatzumoto has beaten this horse to death, so I’ll keep it brief. Small, achievable goals are much more [...]

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]]> By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Tortoises and Hares http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/how-to-accomplish-great-things-small-victories-winnable-games#comment-34092 All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Tortoises and Hares Mon, 15 Feb 2010 07:57:15 +0000 http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/?p=283#comment-34092 [...] away the whips and sticks. Relax. Just do one. Enjoy each step. Savor each bite. Become a tortoise and start winning. Remember, it only seems slower: you’ll get there sooner then you think, and well ahead of [...] [...] away the whips and sticks. Relax. Just do one. Enjoy each step. Savor each bite. Become a tortoise and start winning. Remember, it only seems slower: you’ll get there sooner then you think, and well ahead of [...]

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