What It Takes To Be Great - AJATT: Narrated

Khatzumoto shares and discusses an article on what you need to do to excel (in this case in learning Japanese)!
LINK FROM ARTICLE:
What it takes to be great:
money.cnn.com/...
At the time of this video being made, the AJATT blog has been inaccessible/taken offline :( I found a good (mostly complete) backup of the website so I should be back to making these videos again. My current plan is to finish this series (300-400 videos by my estimations) before the end of the year so please subscribe if this interests you!
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Note: This is all unofficial and fan-made, Khatzumoto does not endorse this in any way!
I've been wanting to make this for such a long time so I'm so happy to finally be bringing it to you! The video part is extremely boring (sorry!) as I know absolutely nothing about editing and making nice visuals. The main point of this, though, is to allow you to listen and learn as you're doing something else, so feel free to turn off your screen and let the copyright free music and my poor narration flow into your earholes (lol).
Please let me know your thoughts and things you think I should change going forward. Cheers!
MUSIC ATTRIBUTION:
uppbeat.io
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[@togeffet]

Hm, that’s a pretty good article. Ok, I already though that most of the “I have a special gifted talent and you don’t, therefore you’ll suck your whole life” was a bunch of BS when told to me, but this confirms my thoughts. So thanks! Also, this (weird enough) works better as a motivator than some of the success stories at this blog. Commented by Ramses on October 5, 2008

[@togeffet]

Being a programmer and an artist, people sometimes assume I have a natural gift in order to be talented in two seemingly contradictory hobbies. Yet, I’ve spent hundreds of hours every month programming and drawing for several years. Definitely somewhere around 10,000 hours in total (and still going). Thomas Edison also comes to mind. He really sucked at making light bulbs. It took him over 10,000 freaking tries before he got it right. If anyone lacked talent in something before achieving greatness, it was him. Commented by Will on October 6, 2008

[@togeffet]

Yes, but I don’t think the SATs were invented to measure motivation… I took “IGCSE”s in high school, standardized testing in school subjects. For biology, I got past papers and their answer sheets and started doing them 2 weeks before the exam. My precentage went from a miserable 48% to a 91% in the last paper I did. I got A in the actual exam. I was still clueless about Biology, and I definitely was not interested in Biology at all. I was motivated to pass the test, but not motivated to learn more about Biology, two completely different things. Commented by Squintox on October 6, 2008