The Most Important Sentence I Learnt in 2 Years of Language Teaching

The biggest, baddest language learning technique that you can ever learn is to realize what's irrelevant and what really needs to be done. Did you ever feel guilty about a distraction, and then try to make it into something "productive"? I sometimes catch myself watching Season 6 of Gossip Girl (If it's in French, is that still procrastination? Answer: Yes. Especially when you're meant to write something for Compass.). But there are also the times where I just read a lot of irrelevant things...