1Q84 #2 – Murakami Haruki
molco's Life List
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1. Overcome my eating disorder.
9 entries . 43 cheers426 people -
2. read 100 books
88 entries . 21 cheers297 people -
3. be more social
3 entries . 10 cheers5,417 people -
4. Learn Japanese
2 entries . 11 cheers10,617 people -
5. have a garden full of fresh herbs and vegetables to replace buying at the grocery store
3 entries . 26 cheers29 people -
6. find myself
1 entry . 7 cheers2,081 people -
7. find a best friend
1 entry . 6 cheers604 people -
8. simplify my life
1 entry . 11 cheers1,224 people -
9. read the top 100 books of all time
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10. learn arabic
1 entry . 3 cheers2,320 people -
11. grow my hair long
1 entry . 2 cheers3,937 people -
12. become a Buddhist
1 entry . 4 cheers222 people -
13. be a good person
1 entry . 6 cheers600 people -
14. practice zazen daily.
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15. not be afraid
1 entry . 11 cheers225 people -
16. Be able to sit seiza for one hour
1 entry . 1 cheer1 person
How I did it: I made a plan to learn a certain number of new kanji everyday plus some compound words and revieweverything with SRS (spaced repetition system) everday as well.That didn't really happened until the second year though. The first of the two years it took me I learned only about 100 kanji. But when I realized my insanely slow speed would take me about 10 years to get to 2000 I made the above plan and stuck to 5 kanji every day for half a yea… Read how I did it…
How I did it: I wrote each character at least 50 times. The first five times I wrote a new character I would make it as perfect as possible in order to develop good habits with stroke orders and all. Read how I did it…
How I did it: Except from when I was sick I have been reading several books a month for a while now. It's been easy because I'm an indoor person and I love to read:) Also, when you borrow a book from the library, I think it's a bit reckless coming back with it after a month having not read it; you keep others from reading it, and you wear it out. Read how I did it…

