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本帖最后由 蓝田日暖 于 2017-2-24 17:49 编辑
I was reading the book Persuasion, and highlighting those new words in order to look them up in the dictionaries. Some time later, I felt a bit frustrated, being overwhelmed by the fact that there were so many English words I knew nothing about.
I closed the book, and decided to do other things. As I went back to thinking about it, I recollected some important attitudes I had several years ago, when I began to set aside time to learn English on a daily basis. I was not taking score so much then. In fact, I just spent about 20 minutes every day, getting familiar with some new words, and let it go soon, not thinking about its immediate results. If frustration or overwhelment hunt me at the time, I might have stopped that kind of learning.
Years later, another new and kinda leading-edge attitude came to me. I began to deliberately celebrate my improvements on English, even it only meant knowing one English word. One word?! Yes, that's what I was doing. Celebrating very subtle improvements, on my mind, often. What a wonderful attitude! It made the learning process more pleasing, much easier, and also more resultful. Enjoyment on the learning journey; and then satisfying and wonderful continual improvements along the way--this is what I want: I want to reap continual good feelings and intelligence and abilities, on and on and on... |
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