I Learned French in 12 Months

Re:I Learned French in 12 Months by ngngngng on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:09PM (#22343211)

That's fair. My Dad always taught me that life is a series of distractions. A few years ago when I was single and college age I would always approach him with opportunities to change my major or accept some cool job. He'd never tell me what to do, but instead would have me write down (or review) my goals in life. And then ask myself, "does this fit within my goals?"

In following this philosophy I turned down many opportunities that seemed too good to be true because they didn't fit my life goals.

This is the main benefit I see in the quote, goals help with stretching yourself, sure. But I think it's far more valuable to stick to something instead of chasing every distraction that comes your way.

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Re:I Learned French in 12 Months by hrktb on Sunday February 16, 2020 @04:18PM (#22343819)

That’s great of your dad, and it seems it was well fitting with your personality. Did you ever want to change your goals based on opportunities, once you got out of school and your dad had less influence ?

I rarely met people that had actually viable goals while in school (not that their goal was unrealistic, just missinformed and ill fited for them), and we all took our first years out of school as a discovery period to find something that was working for us.

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Re:I Learned French in 12 Months by electriclove on Sunday February 16, 2020 @02:38PM (#22343350)

What are/were your life goals? How did you come to discovering/defining them? I find that to be quite difficult.

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