It takes guts to be able to critique yourself fairly and honestly. Sometimes we don’t realise our weaknesses, and sometimes we purposely stop ourselves from realising them too. We all know that we have our weaknesses, and every time we put something out into the world is a chance to address them. Some of the …
Mt. Kinbo is a 471m high peak at the edge of the Mt. Maya mountain range located to the south of Tsuruoka City that is a great place for a day hike following ancient Shugendo Yamabushi paths.
I always say that ideas are never enough. Without acting on ideas, they are entirely useless. But if your idea requires the changing of the culture, then it is much more important that you act on it. Which is to say I support those who share their thoughts and but also live by their values. …
When you learn a second language, or even analyze your own mother tongue, sometimes it’s hard to say whether something is language, or whether it is culture. For example, we always say how are you, but often it is just a way to begin a conversation. In Japanese, most of the time it’s strange to …
Burnout sucks. You have to be careful to control your workload or else burnout can creep up on you. I’m in that situation at the moment, and I think I need to take a bit of my own advice. This demands not having too much on your plate in the first place, which means you …
I’ve been using clubhouse a bit more in the past few days, and there’s a real difference between the people who go out of their way to set up rooms and conversations with people, and those who don’t, and the ones who do seem to be really making the most of the app. Which is …
I spent way too long this afternoon trying to get a template to work on my blog. I still can’t get it to work, and I think I’ll just modify an old one I made that works. WordPress is great in that you can do a lot, but it’s extremely unintuitive, and you have to …
There are times in our lives where things are simply overwhelming, when it feels like things are coming at you from all directions and you don’t have the energy or ability to stay on top of them. At times like this, it helps to take a step back, breathe, and just let it all sink …
There’s a shop near here that is (was) famous for their pumpkin pies. The pies were small, like those fruit mince pies you get at Christmas, and they were very good indeed. The shop was really cool too, it had a Kura or old school storehouse, right next to it and the shop was always …
He who knows no foreign language does not truly know his own -Vygotsky On the surface it may sound surprising but learning a second language actually teaches you more about your own language. If you really want to understand yourself, try to understand others. The more different the other, the more there is to understand.
