Mohammad Abualsaud

 Today I want to talk about the needed time to make a progress in your goal or skill. Sometimes I hear my classmate complain about his grades even though he study for one hour for math class every day. I actually have been though the same situation many times when I was in college. Also, many people complain that they are not making progress in the skill they want to master such as programming language, musical instrument, languages, ..... I have came to a realization that some skill required a specific amount of time in a daily basis ( or at least 5 days a week ). For example, if you are studying English for 10 minutes every day, you will probably not make any progress whatsoever. It is like planning to go to the English class in the 10th floor in the building by climbing the stairs to reach the class then take the elevator to go back down without going inside the English class.  I think that for all goals and skills that we want to master, we must spend a specific amount of ...

 When I was in my third year in college, I had an acute depression. I had very bad grades and I had a lot of family problems. Starting from 2018, I decided to listen and read about self-development. I immersed myself in this world and I replaced my negativity with positivity. I literally brainwashed my brain. After I have have solved my depression problem completely, I started looking unsatisfied on many self-development post. I realized that often time, being optimistic is just a way of escaping the brutal truth. It is actually will make you less happy instead of more happy. Even too much positivity is bad for you. 

How long do you need to learn a language ? Many people have the idea that learning a language take years. Which is true. How ever, the journey of learning a language vary from language to another language. This is also depends on your first language. If you are English native speaker, Spanish is considered easy for you because you share 50% of the vocabulary. If you are an Arabic native speaker, learning Persian because you share 50% of the vocabulary. But learning Mandarin or Japanese for English native speaker will be hard. You can't compare learning Spanish with Japanese when your first language is English. That's why you shouldn't feel depressed when you feel that you are making very slow improvement in learning a difficult language. It is a normal process. The question that you need to ask yourself is "is it worth it to spend all this time learning this language?" because for some, it might be not worth it.  Thanks for reading