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As Bruce Lee said, “Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
As Bruce Lee said... #4HourChef
“Take risks and you’ll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It’s that simple.”
"Take risks and (...) learn from your mistakes until you succeed. It's that simple!"
“When you have the best and tastiest ingredients, you can cook very simply and the food will be extraordinary because it tastes like what it is.” And: “Good cooking is no mystery. You don’t need years of culinary training, or rare and costly foodstuffs, or an encyclopedic knowledge of world cuisines. You need only your own five senses.”
Converting the U.S.’s 160 million corn and soybean acres to organic production would sequester enough carbon to satisfy 73% of the Kyoto targets for CO² reduction in the U.S.
Converting the USA's Corn and Soybean acres to organic = already 73% of Tokyo protocol met!
sometimes having no experience is a huge advantage. Age doesn’t matter; an open mind does.
Age Doesn't Matter: Open-Mind Does!
“A good teacher must know the rules; a good pupil, the exceptions.”
What we really need to do, to design, is look at the extremes. The weakest, or the person with arthritis, or the athlete, or the strongest, the fastest person, because if we understand what the extremes are, the middle will take care of itself.” In other words, the extremes inform the mean, but not vice versa.
That “average user” can be deceptive or even meaningless, just as all averages1 can be.
The top 1% often succeed despite how they train, not because of it. Superior genetics, or a luxurious full-time schedule, make up for a lot.
Career specialists can’t externalize what they’ve internalized. Second nature is hard to teach.
what you study is more important than how you study.
It doesn’t matter how good your teacher is. One must find the highest-frequency material.
Is the method effective? Have you narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable? Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you’ve prescribed yourself?
If effectiveness is doing the right things, efficiency is doing things right.
“justice too long delayed is justice denied.”
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.”
“Writing a novel [or learning] is like driving at night in the fog. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.”
“He who doesn’t know foreign languages knows nothing of his own.”
I asked if I could try their Turkish demo, which the woman was kind enough to let me test-drive for 15 minutes. I skipped to a Level 3 test, which is intended to be taken after 120–150 hours of study, and scored more than 80% correct. In addition to saving me time, that 30-minute, 12-sentence audit saved me $399.
In reality, most people aren’t “bad” at languages. They’re bad, like me, at memorizing boring, zero-gratification tables that make DMV forms look sexy.
“Me shooting 40% at the foul line is just God’s way to say nobody’s perfect.”
