Do you really want my daily routine?

[@NotDaisyNYC]

I love this! Everyone always wants to know how I became fluent in Spanish - they are expecting me to recommend a class or an app or some structured method and they don't know how to react when I tell them "I followed my curiosity" (which, for me, is the best way to learn and to stay motivated about what I'm learning) The structure of school was painful for me (and it frustrated my teachers that I managed to be a top student even though I resisted the structured approach at every turn) so I would never impose an overly structured learning approach on myself!

[@futuremultilingual6134]

I honestly don't have a clue what research this whole setting goals, schedules etc is based on. I have been studying this for years and I have never seen anyone say that. It's nuts that people are so found of spouting it out. One of the reasons I do this channel is immerse myself in the world of KZbin education which I intend to try and explain/ critique in the eventual PhD thesis. If you have any suggestions for things to look at. Thanks for your kind words

[@NotDaisyNYC]

@@futuremultilingual6134 - It seems this time of year my KZbin feed is full of videos from people sharing their "expertise" in goal setting. I suppose there must be a market for that. I do set goals for the year - usually one significant personal goal and one significant professional goal (both are usually related to learning since I'm a consultant and always need to be learning new things) and sometimes a few small goals that might seem kind of silly (e.g., a few years ago I decided I wanted to be comfortable when I went to a restaurant and they only offered chopsticks as utensils so I bought a fancy set of chopsticks and used them for every meal I could until I felt confident using them. LOL) but I'm sure I don't follow the popular "wisdom" on goal setting and attainment. For 2022 my goal was to be proficient enough with Spanish that I could help people who approached me for directions but only spoke Spanish. I live in NYC so it happens at least once a week. 8 months into learning, I met my now-husband (who only speaks Spanish) when he needed directions to the bathroom at the beach so I think I successfully achieved that goal. A couple of weeks ago I was able to use my Spanish to help a family who only spoke Italian because we could understand each other enough. Your research focus for your Ph.D. is quite interesting! I think YT is an incredibly rich environment for self-directed learners and in fact it was my primary resource for learning Spanish. Maybe it's my professional bias (I do a lot of work in leadership assessment and organizational change management) but I think a lot of people are very uncomfortable operating in ambiguity so they look for someone to give them a detailed plan with concrete steps and schedules. For me, that would have taken all of the enjoyment out of the learning process, so I'm clearly not the target audience for those videos.

[@Jefersnrz]

Daily routines or people telling whoever is watching what they "should" do with their lifes in order to squeeze every breathing moment into productivity

[@futuremultilingual6134]

There is a psychology paper from the 50s called the tyranny of should. It's worth a read

[@johnsch8634]

Saw a video by a lady Bilibili who wanted to cultivate the habit of reading big thick books. I found it to be... very odd, but also kind of educational. She was talking about how she was making sure she read 50 pages every day so that it would only take two weeks to finish reading her 600 page book. The whole idea struck me as odd, makes me want to ask several questions "Why do you want to read the book?" "Are you interested in reading the book?" "Are you learning anything?" I don't know what her motivation is, but it seems more like she wants to be the kind of person who reads big books or be seen as such. Seemed very much in the Marcus aurelius/self improvement vein, but without Marcus Aurelius... I think I'll rewatch the video to see if I can figure out why she wanted to have this habit of reading big thick books.

[@futuremultilingual6134]

I can't find it. What you describe is just nonsense. Imagine trying to go through 50 pages of a book you aren't interested in.

[@johnsch8634]

@@futuremultilingual6134 ah yes, I meant to say "on Bilibili" so, not on youtube. actually... on second viewing her objective is even more confusing. She says "well first to start off this habit you should start with books you're interested in. So I've got this biography of Deng XiaoPing." If you're interested... then just read the book! She wants to set goals and test her ability to concentrate and take in info. I was recently reading a management guru called Edward Deming and a lot of his pithy management quotes apply amply to language learning KZbinrs and language schooling in general. -"management by numerical goal is an attempt to manage without knowledge of what to do, and in fact is usually management by fear." He could be talking about Anki. -"Information is not knowledge." -"A bad system will beat a good person every time." How many good teachers have been beaten down by bad systems?

[@Elspm]

I think these "pointless" niggly rules are actually excellent at teaching very valuable things. For example, in my primary school we (the girls) had to wear skirts, at the turn of the bloody millennium. In Scotland, in winter. So we organised, wore trousers, got a petition together, and complained to our parents. Got to wear trousers without comment. Unionising in primary school, terribly heducational. Of course, it may just be better if we let children have bodily autonomy and respect. But that sounds unlikely.

[@futuremultilingual6134]

That is a moment of great triumph. In my primary school in south Manchester we wore shorts but we could put tracky bottoms over them to walk to school on winter.