Don't tell yourself you're going to "learn Spanish".
Instead, you're going to learn how to tell people your name. Tomorrow it might be age. Next month it'll be "chatting for longer than 3 mins".
Let the path be unclear, and focus one step ahead instead of one thousand.
Lots of frequent, small wins is much more sustainable, enjoyable and motivating than a monster, multi-year goal that never seems to move closer.
Learning, especially self-learning should look more like play and less like a textbook.
1 month ago · 👍 johano, me, deerbard, jecxjo, cobradile94, digbat, o9earth
interesting. approaching language learning just like programming. tackle small projects that are attainable and build upon each other. · 1 month ago
this is also related to the concept of SMART goals... · 1 month ago