Tim Ferriss

And then up, and then down, and then maybe there's more of a plateau.

And if you know these in advance, you can kind of plan for them.

in the service of the long-term goal of being fluent in the language.

But if you have a teacher who's tried to do the right thing, and they tell you everything's gonna be great, you know, just one step in front of the other, you know, slow and steady wins the race, and you expect it to be this linear progression, you're gonna get crushed as soon as you suffer a setback.

And I feel like psychologically,

This is where Stoicism is such an incredible arrow in the quiver.

It's just expecting people to be, you know, like Marcus Aurelius meditations.

Like, effectively, when you go out, like, expect people to be insolent and rude.

Expect people to disappoint you.

Expect A, B, and C. And there's a thin line between that and just being pessimistic or nihilistic, right?

But... I think you're just talking about drive.

Totally.

And I think that there's just like baseline drive.

It's like, okay, what kind of engine do you have?

And then there's how do you drive the car?

And it's almost like rally racing.

Like I did a little bit of training in rally racing, which is incredibly dangerous, but also... No shit.

You went to O'Neill.

I went to O'Neill.

Fucking awesome.