Combine Growth into Existing Habits

When you are learning something new, it often helps if you can pair it with something that you already do or like, you are more likely to be successful.

For example, I am trying to learn Thai.

I try to journal every morning and now when I am done, I write letters in the Thai alphabet several times to learn them. I added it as a couple minute habit of writing on the tail of an existing habit of writing.

Thai is a tonal language so being able to hear the up and down pitch on sounds is important. Throughout the day I tend to have various game streams running on twitch while i work as background noise and entertainment. Today as I was looking at various streamers I noticed some familiar looking non Roman alphabet letters as the title of one of the streams.

It was Thai, so I started watching. I was only able to understand a couple of basic words like “No” and some numbers, but this is something I am more likely to continue watching and using as a learning tool because it is attached to something else that I already like and do.

Keep getting wiser, stronger, and better.

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