Hey,<\/p>\n
Today I’m going to share a bit about one mental hack I won’t be
\nwriting an implementation guide on, but is probably more important
\nthan any I’ve written or will write in the future.<\/p>\n
—<\/p>\n
The Greatest Mental Hack… Attitude<\/p>\n
Okay, so maybe it isn’t as sexy-sounding as visceralization or
\nspeed reading, but in all honesty, attitude will determine whether
\nyou succeed or fail more than anything else.<\/p>\n
There’s already been so much written about attitude, I’ll save you
\nthe motivational speech. Instead, I’d like to focus on one element,
\nshared to me by Kalid Azad.<\/p>\n
This is the importance of admitting things are difficult.<\/p>\n
I know I can sound a bit hand-wavy at times. But the truth is,
\nlearning is often difficult. Fiendishly difficult.<\/p>\n
Calculus, foreign languages, memorizing biological terms. This is
\ndifficult stuff. If you’re in university or a difficult high-school
\nprogram, you need to congratulate yourself for tackling the subjects
\nmost people fail.<\/p>\n
You don’t succeed in these subjects by assuming they will be easy,
\nor assuming they’ll be easy just because you’ve used metaphors,
\nspeed reading or some other method. Yes, learning tactics can make
\nyou perform better and faster, but they don’t immediately make your
\njob easier.<\/p>\n
Accepting that you’re up against a difficult subject allows you to
\nharness the focus to really tackle it.<\/p>\n
When I started learning French, one of my first admissions was that
\nI had no idea how a person could learn a foreign language. All that
\naudio sounded like gibberish, how could someone possible follow it?
\nThere were hundreds of thousand of words to learn, different grammar
\nconstructions, there was a lot of work.<\/p>\n
But once I accepted that it was difficult, perhaps very difficult,
\nI needed to follow that up with another important attitude: it is
\ndoable.<\/p>\n
Yes, language learning might be difficult. But people for tens of
\nthousands of years have learned to speak foreign languages. People
\nare putting in the effort and succeeding every day. If they can do
\nit, I can too.<\/p>\n
The same is true for whatever you’re learning. Yes, it might be
\nincredibly difficult and accepting that will focus you to put the
\neffort in. But also realize that people succeed every day at
\nlearning your subject *because* they put in the effort.<\/p>\n
And you can too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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