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The Benefits Of Becoming Fluent In A Foreign Tongue Are As Underestimated As The Difficulty Is Overestimated. Thousands Of Theoretical Linguists Will Disagree, But I Know From Research And Personal Experimentation With More Than A Dozen Languages That (1) Adults Can Learn Languages Much Faster Than Children When Constant 9-5 Work Is Removed And That (2) It Is Possible To Become Conversationally Fluent In Any Language In Six Months Or Less. At Four Hours Per Day, Six Months Can Be Whittled Down To Less Than Three Months.

You Don't Have To Travel, But I Find Extended Travel To Be A Helpful Tool For Reexamining Yourself And The Constraints You've Artificially Placed On Your Life. It's Easy To Believe Everything Has To Be Done One Way If You're Always In One Place Around The Same People.

I Value Self-discipline, But Creating Systems That Make It Next To Impossible To Misbehave Is More Reliable Than Self-control.

I Think About Willpower Almost Never. I Realize For Myself, Trying To Be More Disciplined Is Pretty Nebulous And It's Often A Slippery Target. For Me, I've Just Thought About Incentives.

For All Their Bitching About What’s Holding Them Back, Most People Have A Lot Of Trouble Coming Up With The Defined Dreams They’re Being Held From.