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Effective Language Learning

I studied a language 30 minutes a day for 1 year, for free. Here’s what happened.

Hint: not what I expected.

Oct 10, 2023

Learning a language every day for one year, for free? Hallo?!

Oct 10, 2023

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Breaking the Cycle

Did You Break The Cycle?

For you, amazing people, who made big changes to your lives and are willing to share them with us

Sep 15

Sep 15

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Pragmatic Wisdom

I Embraced the Joy of Being Ordinary

I’m tired of our extraordinary lives online

Sep 8

I Embraced the Joy of Being Ordinary

Sep 8

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Breaking the Cycle

I Said No to My Fear of Heights And Cable Cars

This happened when I said yes to a mountain climb in Austria (and took several cable cars, one of them at night)

Sep 3

Black-and-white drawing of a terrified man in a cable car

Sep 3

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Write A Catalyst

Why I Stopped Publishing Often

Even though I still write every day

Aug 23

Image by author using AI (the text is 100% human-written!)

Aug 23

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Thought Thinkers

The Problem With Wishing Everything Was Like the Good Old Days

What if there’s never been a better time to be alive?

Aug 13

a black-and-white drawing of a sad man resting on his hands

Aug 13

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Read or Die!

Where Did My Attention Span Go?

Changes that I’ve noticed in the last 15 years of using the Internet and what I’m doing about them

Jul 31

Black-and-white abstract art

Jul 31

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ILLUMINATION

10 Things I’m Tired of Reading

Warning: I’m so tired I’m about to be mildly annoying

Jul 30

Black-and-white drawing of a boy making the stop sign and a girl in the background

Jul 30

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Write A Catalyst

I Now Know When I Can Write and When I Can’t

Writing experts got that one horribly wrong

Jul 22

A wooden chalet on a lake in Switzerland. A snowy mountain in the background

Jul 22

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ILLUMINATION

I Embraced the Freedom of Being Average

How an abandoned hobby challenged my core beliefs of being a top performer at everything

Jul 8

A detailed black-and-white drawing of a person juggling four balls at a park

Jul 8

Maria Writes Things

Maria Writes Things

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Recovering perfectionist, challenging myself and what people consider the norm. I write about society, self-help, and language learning. https://t.ly/42Ar9

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