The Forgotten Pleasure of the Journey

In the era of immediate satisfaction and stimuli, we all want to learn things fast. Fast is good, but fast is rarely long-term. One hundred meters runners have a very different skill-set than ultra marathon runners, and for good reason : What is required of them is fundamentally different.

I think that while trying to achieve our goals overnight, while we are searching for a get-fit/rich/healthy/attractive-quick schemes we are loosing the very purpose of the journey. For if someone was given 1'000'000$ overnight, they would not be smarter with it than they are with their current wealth. This experience is much like NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA players that go from being a 19 year old driving around with the family's scooter to multi-millionaires, only to drop back down to near-poverty when their career eventually comes to an end.

The same concept applies to learning a language. We all want to do a couple minutes of Duolingo every day for 2 years and be fluent. We all want to watch a couple YouTube videos in between hobbies, never study, start understanding within our first day of exposure, and for it to stay motivating and never feel hard. We are trading long-term progress for short-lived dopamine hits making us feel like we are progressing. Although this method of casual learning is valid and could keep some entertained enough to eventually learn the language, a method that I want to get into, maybe only to experience the science behind it, is the Immersion technique.

What is considered Immersion?

To be continued...

Where do I start?

To be continued...