hendrikboom

Nothing written yesterday, the lucky day chosen by the Chinese for the start of the Olympics. I have great trouble doing *anything* ten minutes a day on a regular basis, whether it's practicing katakana, exercising, doing a small increment of writing, taking a shower, brushing my teeth, doing exercises, clearing away junk in the basement, well, anything. Or it doesn't have to be ten minutes. It could be twenty, or forty minutes. So that includes things that are strictly for pleasure, such as watching episodes of a favorite TV show. Something always come up. Spending big blocks of time on something, that's easy. It just has to be something that snags my curiosity, and suddenly I'm spending a day or three researching it. But a lot of things aren't do-it-all-at-once things. They are skills, and unless the same skills show up in a variety of all-at-once researches, I don't get to get good at them. Mind you, there are subjects to which I return time and again, with gaps of weeks or months. But big blocks of intensity aren't the best way to learn some things. Better are many short efforts, ten or twenty minutes a day.