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    • Just Do One: Lowering Your Standards and Using Patterns from Addictions to Achieve Success

    January 23, 2008
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    I’m not the first guy to ever write about this kind of thing, not the best, and not the last. But, let’s give it a shot. I don’t know if that comes out in this blog, but I can actually be a bit of a perfectionist. And this is a bad thing. I have over 300 drafts in my...

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    Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards

    December 7, 2011
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    Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards

    Lo! And Chagami sayeth: It doesn’t matter how many kanji you do a day/how many sentences you’re learning/how much vocab you’re picking up, all that matters is that progress is being made. I know that sometimes it can feel like we’re lowering our standards by just striving to make progress, but then again, if you are like me, who had month...

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    Do “Wide Standards” Apply To Immersion?: High Achievement Despite Low=Wide Standards

    December 14, 2011
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    Do “Wide Standards” Apply To Immersion?: High Achievement Despite Low=Wide Standards

    e_dub_kendo on “Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards”: Khatz, just to clarify, this applies to the “study aspect” like doing SRS reps, etc, but given any 86,400 second period one should be striving to be in a Japanized environment for as many of those seconds as humanly possible right? I guess what I’m saying is, it doesn’t matter...

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