Wednesday, December 17, 2008
19:06 @Zooby Burger
The day didn’t go as I wanted….
I planned to write something in English today. I italic the word “something” because I want to emphasize that it’s different from “anything”. Yes. It is different. And this paper, a thing that I am working on, is excluded from the “something” that I talk about.
Actually, I spend lot of days thinking about something that I want to write. There are many subjects that pop in my mind. It varies from a light to a heavy one. But I don’t know why I couldn’t just let myself to start. The reason I finally work on this writing is because I just want to push myself to write, at least, anything. Hopefully, this paper leads me to write another subject, a subject that I truly want to write.
For your information, it is really really not easy for me to start writing. I really need to push myself this hard to make me write. Seriously So, probably now you begin to ask: why do I push myself this hard just to write a piece of paper? The answer is quite easy. It is the way I practice my English. I want to improve my writing skills in English to, at least, the same level as writing in Bahasa Indonesia.
Well, I read so many books. I learn from a lot of people. And they all talk about the same thing when it comes to learning. The best way to learn anything is, they all said, by practicing. In the past few months, I read and listen a lot of books. [Yeap. I read and listen. Some books that I read are audobooks. An audiobook is merely a book which read and recorded in audio format. All of the audiobook I listen are read by its author]. And I can mention at least two books that talk about practicing; they are “Outliers” and “Brain Rules”.
The first book, Outliers, is a book about successful people who were able to reach their maximum potentials and went far beyond everyone else. The word “outliers” itself comes from statistics. In statistics, the data that go far beyond the average value are called outliers. I really paid attention on reading the book when I open a chapter about The Beatles, since I am one of their fans. It said that before The Beatles launched their first album (1962), they perform 8 hours a day for about two years (from 1960-1962).
The second book, Brain Rules, is a book about how our brain works. It is written by John Madina, a scientist who is specialist on Brain Studies. The book said that every brain is wired differently, depends on our activities. It said that when we are practicing something, for example practicing playing basketball, it doesn’t just have an effect on our physical shape. What more important is it is effecting the way our brain wired. A great basketball player like Michael Jordan probably has all physical ability needed to play baseball. However, his brain isn’t wired in a way good baseball player’s are. That’s why he failed on his baseball career.
There are a lot of other books that also talk about why practicing is the best way to learn something. A motivational speaker like Stephen Covey and Brian Tracy also said that. In every book that Brian Tracy writes, he always says something like, “Do this over and over again until it become automatic”.
So, even if I have to spend nearly two hours just to write this piece of paper, I know that I have learned something right now. I have just practiced my writing skills, something that I have to do more often. And today, finally, I write a paper It is not the kind of paper that I planned. But, it’s okay. I will try to write again as soon as possible.
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