Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Set a task every day

Learning a language is a large, and often unclear task. Many people wade into the task without a clear understanding of how much work is involved. But rather than underestimating the amount of work involved, most people actually overestimate it.

One of the lessons our modern society has taught us is that no one is ever rewarded for underestimating a task, and no one is ever punished for overestimating it.

Nature abhors a vaccuum
In 1955, Cyril Northcote Parkinson wrote a humorous observation... continue reading at Fluent Every Year