Why a brainiac with 0 external stimuli would study chinese?

[werewitt]

@Balthazar as I said, when I want cheap (hopefully not) psychotherapy, I talk to a specialist.

1 hour ago, Balthazar said:

I recommend taking a break to think things over on your own.

I guess I will ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[imron]

2 hours ago, werewitt said:

what was your motivation @imron?

I always wanted to learn another language.  After graduating university I spent a few months travelling around different language regions in Europe and came to the conclusion I wanted to learn something completely different from English.

 

I wound up in London for a time, and decided to sign up to night classes in Chinese. Originally I had wanted to learn Cantonese due to an interest in martial arts, but I couldn't find any Cantonese classes so signed up for Mandarin instead.

 

The notice board outside the classroom had an advertisement for teaching English in China, and I thought why not? And the rest is history. 

 

Over the next 16 years motivation came and went in cycles, and that's when I realised the importance of replacing motivation with discipline and habit instead.

 

While I don't get an intellectual joy out of knowing Chinese I do get immense satisfaction from reading Chinese novels in their original form and in interactions with friends that I wouldn't be able to have if I didn't speak Chinese. 

[imron]

And locked.  Editing out posts and continually changing titles is a great way for that to happen.

[roddy]

5 hours ago, werewitt said:

I guess I will ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

A week's holiday should be long enough.