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“Perfectionism crushes the creative spirit, whereas excellence refines it.”

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Author:Benjamin Batarseh

“If you think you are good at something, you do it more and progress faster. If you think you are bad at something, you do it less and progress slower. Much of the skill gap between people is explained by psychology and hard work, not natural ability.”

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Author:Benjamin Batarseh

“In a foreign language, a lot of social and psychological conditioning gets thrown out the window. First, you begin to interact with people who do not know you outside of the target language. The blank canvas effect here is true of any new people you meet, in general. Second, every language is a world unto itself. It is common to hear people comment on the particularity of an individual’s foreign language skills. “She speaks French well. His Spanish is formal or funny. I want to hear them speak Arabic.” In other words, people expect there to be some differences between the native-language version of yourself and the target-language version. If you want to exaggerate these differences, then more power to you. As the saying in the intro goes, the multiple personalities effect with people who speak more than one language is real but bears none of the oft associated pathology.”

Psychology Personality Language Learning Foreign Languages

Book:The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me

Source: The Art of Learning a Foreign Language: 25 Things I Wish They Told Me