Drew's Journal

I could put together a series of links and recommendations for Spanish people travelling to New Zealand about what English schools are the best, finding accommodation, where to travel to, as well as have some guest posts or interviews asking people that have travelled here about their experience here and how they organised themself.

The ‘fluent in 3 months’ book seems to say that the way to start language learning is lots and lots of conversation. Circa 2 hours per day. From then, courses help to progress knowledge through more studious means.

Untangling goals is tricky. Do I want to go to Chile? Or do I want to learn Spanish? Or travel to Chile? Or travel to a Latin country? Or travel anywhere in general?

Writing these down so that I can process them, come back to them and also, let them go in a way.

  • Law seeks to find what is reasonable while politics seeks to question what is reasonable.
  • Time spent on a task and the value produced by the task are not linearly connected. What customers pay should reflect the value they are provided. Therefore, customers of services should not be charged for time spent.
  • External order affects internal order. External order for me includes a tidy room, a shaved face, an updated calendar and physical direction.
  • Latin dancing improves and some movement intelligence, swagger, musicality and confidence with the opposite sex but does not maintain physical characteristics that are needed for longevity given my sedentary lifestyle through work. Strength training (which for me is mainly bouldering) is a becoming a ‘must’ again. There are so many small muscles worked through bouldering whose affect on my quality of life I have taken for granted.
  • Doing things in secret helps ensure that the reason for doing the thing is not influenced by the need for social praise.

  • Self-authoring suite seems legit.

  • A good thing is something that propels you into action.

  • Write out your daydreams into a visceral plan and let them sit for a while.

  • Goals are only useful if they make you jump into action. Derek suggests letting go of all of your goals, except for the ones you ‘hate not doing’.

  • Perhaps you only need to make enough money to live like $1000 per month and the rest of that time can go towards your interests.

  • You always have a choice. Everything is a choice. You never have to do anything, there are just consequences.

If you wish to be flexible, strong and balanced, learn the steps necessary to do a straddle headstand. Once you have it, every time you do it, you will be maintaining a variety of physical features at the same time.

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I read The Polymath by Peter Burke to see what polymaths, fellow creatures that have mastered several disciplines, have in common. The book only spends two chapters discussing this. A short summary lies below:

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Hi, my name is Drew and this is my personal blog.

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If statements say that if one does a particular thing, then God or reality must respond in a particular way.

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If statements and the church
If statements say that if one does a particular thing, then God or reality must respond in a particular way.

OPTIMAL theory & bouldering
OPTIMAL theory is like the Mindset book on steroids.

Bridge progress
Here’s exactly what I’ve been doing to get this.

The creative process in three words
Could it really be that simple?

Entréepreneur
Ideas can be hard to be let go of.

Jonah and the whale reimagined
No other picture has brewed in my imagination as much as this one.

OPTIMAL theory is like the Mindset book on steroids.

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Here’s exactly what I’ve been doing to get this.

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Here’s an overview of what I’m doing now:

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