1. They forget that what they learn and how they learn is inseparable from who they are. How you manage your time during the day has everything to do with how you learn English. How you speak with your friends and family has everything to do with how you speak in English during business meetings. If you change the way you manage your attention in general, It will immediately change how you learn English. If you change one core belief relative to learning English, it will change how you learn everything. People forget that they need to work on themselves, not on the English language. English doesn’t care if you learn it or speak it. It exists regardless of your opinions or complaints about it. You have no power to change it. However, you have all the power in the world to change how you learn. You can choose to stop being a student and become a learner.
2. People forget to complete their exercises. Always ask yourself, “What would it mean to compete this exercise?” If you do creative writing exercises, always read your final text out loud and ask for feedback. So many people forget about this step. Many also forget to edit their texts, do another iteration, self-reflect, or find the answer to the question “How many iterations would be enough?”
📌My TIP: start with an end goal in mind and learn to figure out your way back to the beginning. For example, you decide to do a reading exercise. Let's take this one - Exercise #78. FOCUS: Rhythm: vowels (intermediate). Limericks
What would the end result look like?
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