Yeah this was exactly my conclusion too. And it enabled me to give up things that I wasn’t good at, couldn’t consistently practice, and felt as tremendous burdens. (Namely music and foreign languages). They just don’t stimulate me enough to be able to consistently practice as much as is required for mastery. Unlike jumping a bike which I can do for hours on end. Wish I could play music better and speak Japanese, but I can’t and I finally realized I never would for fundamental chemistry reasons
All these suggestions about different or better planning programs or habit forming things etc…. They have an efficacy that last six weeks, then wears off, and they themselves become another shameful burden.
This long form writing style where the author has to inject his own story as a secondary/support narrative gets really tedious. You could edit all of it out and the story would be sustained.
This story appears almost annually in the NYTimes I feel. Or at least it appears on HN annually, cited from some large media. I wonder why by this point I’d think everyone has heard the standard rebuttals/clarifications.
Yes. And oh and it’s an online store except there are no prices. Just turns into a submission form to contact the artist. (At least for the originals.). Forget it.
Yes, there are prices for prints only. A signed print is around 2k, so an original is uh, more than that. I think Artists truly get much more out of buyers who they develop a relationship with, so having a fixed price online store for originals isn’t something desirable.
I wonder how they count this? I use overcast app. It automatically downloads episodes of anything I’m subscribed to. But I migh not listen to it. Or I might listen to five minutes and delete. What level of truth do these podcast stats catch?
The IAB publishes guidelines for how downloads are counted as listens. If you download but don't listen, it still counts as a listen. The relative changes to listenership matter a lot more than every one of the downloads being a real, legitimate listen.
For culture and not for business learning Japanese at Nara makes more sense but I suppose you need relationships in Society to get connected. Japan being a part of the dishonest decadent West has a fair share of charlatan.
All these suggestions about different or better planning programs or habit forming things etc…. They have an efficacy that last six weeks, then wears off, and they themselves become another shameful burden.
And yes methylphenidate helps.