Monthly Archives: October 2021

  I’m writing this at around 9:49 P.M. I’ll probably gather my thoughts over the night and add more to this tomorrow but I wanted to post something quickly. I’ve just started reading a very cool book, entitled The Buddha and … Continue reading →

REWRITE: As always I must emphasize that there are two disadvantages we as adult learners primarily have. One is that we do not have the luxury of the staggered learning approach that a child has where they learn the bulk … Continue reading →

Cheers! This update focuses on my thoughts on currently memorizing 2,062 Kanji without using any software. If this was ten years ago, before the Japanese government increased the Jouyou Kanji list to 2,136, i’d have “finished” all the Joyou Kanji, because … Continue reading →

My approach and results have exponentially improved with a perceptual shift in my approach. I find the term “learning” to be quite passive. “I want to learn to speak German” or “I want to learn how to paint” are quite … Continue reading →

I’m building a course around learning the Kanji, but I want to make some notes/timestamps on next steps. I understand exactly what to do next to kick things into gear as I will be copying what worked for me with … Continue reading →

Failure is an extremely loaded word for pretty much all learners. To not complete something, is to fail. Whether it is a life goal, a relationship, or a set of math problems. Failure as a construct links directly to identity, … Continue reading →