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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 7 08 January 2010 at 3:39pm | IP Logged |
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If you're like me and several other forum members I know, you have books on all kinds of subjects and languages that sound interesting but that you may never study, you have dozens of started projects and you frequently re-decide what you want to concentrate your energy on.
I now found a book that seemed to know me better than I know myself. It also had an instant wowing effect on everybody else I know with the above-mentioned issues. The book is called "Refuse to Choose", written by Barbara Sher, and after devouring it over Christmas break I can recommend it to everybody here. The book reveals more about yourself and puts you at ease with who you are, but since that was not much of a problem for me, I found another part most rewarding: the part where the author provides lots and lots of helpful tips and techniques to enable you to pursue your dreams. From where and how to start via time management techniques to how to finish projects that deserve to be completed (or that your boss/school requires), there's a lot of helpful content. Edited by administrator on 09 January 2010 at 12:07pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6153 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 2 of 7 08 January 2010 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks Sprachprofi.
You can read excerpts on line at Google Books 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5497 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 3 of 7 08 January 2010 at 5:44pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the recommendation!
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| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6044 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 4 of 7 09 January 2010 at 11:54am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Sprachprofi Edited by John Smith on 09 January 2010 at 12:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| John Smith Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6044 days ago 396 posts - 542 votes Speaks: English*, Czech*, Spanish Studies: German | Message 5 of 7 10 January 2010 at 1:45am | IP Logged |
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@ Sprachprofi or anyone who has read the book
O.K. I read the google book version. Lots of pages missing. So I'm not sure if this is correct. Basically am I supposed to give in? Accept that I am a scanner. Because being a jack of all trades is better than not doing anything at all as a result of indecision? So rather than trying to unsuccessfully choose one language I should just learn all of them? Thank you for your help 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6472 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 6 of 7 10 January 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
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You should accept that you have different interests and a curiosity for the world and revel in that. This does not however mean that you should do/study everything at once. The book suggests a lot of things to reduce the clutter. For example:
- Thinking hard about what you want to get out of whatever you do, and stopping once you have acquired that and it's no longer fascinating to you. - Making a "things I want to do in life" list, but heavily visualizing yourself doing each of the things that come to mind and discovering whether you actually still want to do that and if so, how much time you will want to dedicate to it. Often you'll find out that just cursory study would satisfy your curiosity. - Creating a calendar for the next 6 years and adding your must-do projects in there. You will discover you have a lot more time than you thought, and it will actually be possible to do many of your to-do list items within that time frame already. Putting a project down for e. g. spring 2011 also relieves you of the necessity to work on it right now, so you can focus on less things at a time. - Switching between projects at intervals, e. g. designating different hours of the day, different days of the week or different times of the year to them, depending on what type of scanner you are. To help with indecision, the book suggests picking ANY project, no matter which, and creating a backwards plan for it, starting from the end result and identifying each step that has to be taken before it, until you wind up with one or more steps that you can take right now, which you then have to do of course. Here's an Esperanto summary of the best ideas I got from the book: http://drop.io/skanuloj_eo . Edited by Sprachprofi on 10 January 2010 at 2:33pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| victor-osorio Diglot Groupie Venezuela Joined 5434 days ago 73 posts - 129 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian | Message 7 of 7 10 January 2010 at 7:10pm | IP Logged |
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I'm a scanner. I've learned that every knowledge is useful, it doesn't matter the context
you try to put it in practise. But I repent a lot about not finishing stuff I've just begun. I think in some point you have to choose SOMETHING you have to do, whether you like it or not BUT at the same time having enough spare time to let you indulge in other research or studies that could suddenly catch your attention. But it's important to have just ONE THING that you won't stop doing it doesn't matter if you get tired. That's just what I think. By the way, the tips given in this book seem a little bit unrealistic. I mean, it's hard to make so much plans about life, like making schedules or always thinking when you want to stop something (also, in my case, this will also make me anxious) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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