I'm doing 16 things
1Q84 #2 – Murakami Haruki
molco's Life List
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1. Overcome my eating disorder.
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2. read 100 books
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3. be more social
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4. Learn Japanese
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5. have a garden full of fresh herbs and vegetables to replace buying at the grocery store
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6. find myself
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7. find a best friend
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8. simplify my life
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9. read the top 100 books of all time
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10. learn arabic
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11. grow my hair long
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12. become a Buddhist
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13. be a good person
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14. practice zazen daily.
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15. not be afraid
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16. Be able to sit seiza for one hour
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How I did it
It made me
Trilingual 
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…
It made me
intrigued
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…
It made me
Happy
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…
