The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.
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I initially tried quite high numbers but that made me start to dread my reviews and I ended up not doing them very often.
In the end I whittled it down to ten words per day. Pathetically low, I know, but it guaranteed that I'll actually do it. That and setting a Google calendar alert to remind me.
I would suggest starting low and increasing the number once the habit is ingrained.
Are you using a premade deck or adding your own words?
I've found that doing it on the laptop makes it seem like a far smaller task as opposed to doing it on the phone, not sure why. I've found about 20 a day to be the most I can do sustainably, but I'm wondering if I'm actually hitting a limit of learning or if I could do a lot more with some effort?
The habit is well ingrained as I've used it for learning Spanish in my own time, but with French I actually do need to get good quickly as I'm moving there in a few weeks.
Both, I've got a premade deck with a few thousand cards with audio, and another one where I add what I've picked up from general reading and listening.
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