Seems like it is on the site. In the example sentences. Congratulations, you have discovered what makes example sentences such a good thing to have, for multiple reasons.
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Greetings fellow noobs, and @juniormint I am pleased to see that my rage has inspired you.
Let me share a critical error I made a few times in my quest.
When researching about other people’s studies and their experiences with learning Japanese I came across a term called burnout. Being the noob that I am, I thought it wise to take this term seriously and show it respect. Thinking that breaks were somehow helpful to avoid this ‘burnout’, I’d find myself justifying taking a day or a week off to do something else.
Well fellow noobs, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, EVERY SINGLE TIME I TOOK A BREAK I ALWAYS REGRETTED IT. ALL IT DID WAS PILEUP MY WORKLOAD AND ADD STRESS IN MY LIFE AND CAUSE ME TO RUSH THROUGH MNEMONIC MEMORY AND MAKE WEAK FOUNDATION FOR NEW KANJI I WAS ON.
BURNOUT IS AN IDEA CREATED BY THOSE WHO WOULD JUSTIFY THEIR OWN DECISIONS TO BE LAZY. AND THEY TALK ABOUT IT LIKE ITS A REAL OBJECTIVE TRUTH EVERYONE MUST RESPECT AS REALITY AND WILL EXPERIENCE IF THEY GO TOO FAST.
There is times that a break is necessary because of work and life, but fearing this phantom they call ‘burnout’ is a CRITICAL ERROR. IF YOU NEED TO BREAK THEN DO IT, BUT DO NOT BE FOOLED INTO THINKING BURNOUT IS REAL AND YOU ARE HELPING PREVENT IT BY NOT DOING YOUR JAPANESE
MYTHOLOGICAL FANTASIES LIKE BURNOUT, OR ANY WORDS AND ADVICE THAT SEEK TO PUT OUT THE FLAME IN YOUR HEART, INSTA TRASH IT.
You are fearfully and wonderfully made. The mind and body you were given can do many amazing things.
REAL PRACTICAL BREAK ADVICE:
Feel tired or angry at your studies? I FIND THIS HAPPENS MUCH MORE EASILY AFTER IVE TAKEN A FEW DAYS OFF AND PILED UP MY WORKLOAD.
If you got a bad attitude, it’s time to indulge the flesh a little bit, get food/coffee/lay down, watch something funny or inspiring etc.
A simple attitude adjustment is all you need in those spots.
Maybe put on some instrumentals of your favorite inspiring songs while you study. Music can fix attitudes fast.
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DID YOU THINK THAT WAS ALL I HAD FOR YOU, FELLOW NOOBS?
TODAY WE BATTLE AGAINST ALL THE FORUM POSTS, COMMENTS AND WORDS OF OTHERS WHICH CAUSED YOU TO LOSE YOUR FIRE AND BECOME WEAKER WITH DOUBTS AND HESITATIONS.
DID YOU EVER JUSTIFY TAKING DAYS OFF TO AVOID ‘BURNOUT’?
DOES IT SPOOK YOU TO SEE PEOPLE SAYING THEYVE BEEN STUCK ON A LEVEL FOR MONTHS?
DO THE WORDS OF OTHERS MAKE YOU DOUBT THE WANIKANI SYSTEM?
GLARES AT KOICHI
THOUGH I SEE KOICHI AS A RULER OF DARKNESS FOR CHAINING ME TO TIMERS, I ADMIT WANIKANI IS MADE WITH CARE AND WORKS WELL.
NOW LETS BEGIN:
WHEN YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE OF FUNDAMENTAL MECHANICS, YOU CAN CREATE UNWAVERING FAITH. AND FAITH ERADICATES DOUBT.
Example: In a fighting game, if I know my opponents jab has a 4 frame startup and my characters jab has a 3 frame start up, then I have ZERO DOUBT that I will get the hit if we both mash jab on eachother at round start.
KNOWING WHY ONE CAN EVEN FEEL THIS ‘BURNOUT’ IS THE REAL POWER. WHAT IS THE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANIC OF ‘BURNOUT’?
NOW BEHOLD, FELLOW NOOBS I REVEAL AN ADDITION TO THE STATEMENT WE ALL KNOW:
NOT DOUBTING, THATS WHAT MAKES YOU STRONG, THATS WHAT MAKES YOUR MIND BECOME GOOD SOIL.
Your learning mind is like the earth that you plant seeds in and watch it grow over time.
But your mind does NOT have a limit on soil space.
When you plant the seed in the earth, it’s good to take the extra time to plant it well.
When you learn a new wanikani lesson, it’s good to take your time at the mnemonic visualization and the vocab practice sentences.
This is planting your lessons well.
If you don’t water the properly planted seeds every day, they’ll grow weak and if ignored long enough, die.
If you don’t do your reviews every day, your properly planted kanji and vocab will do THE EXACT SAME THING IN THE SOIL OF YOUR LEARNING MIND.
AND EVERYTHING WILL SUFFER IN GROWTH IF YOU HAVE BAD SOIL AKA A BAD ATTITUDE OF DESPAIR OR FRUSTRATION THAT SOME CALL BURNOUT.
THESE FEELINGS SPAWN BECAUSE YOU DIDNT UNDERSTAND WHY A MEMORY RECALL IN YOUR MIND WAS WEAKER THAN YOU EXPECTED.
THATS ALL ‘BURNOUT’ IS.
Understand that if a recall is weaker than you expected, it’s NOT because you’re an idiot, it’s NOT because you’re stupid.
For WHATEVER THE REASON, that particular lesson in the soil of your mind had a weak initial planting OR wasn’t recalled(watered) in time. It’s simply one of those two things, nothing else.
Could be a break you had to take(reviewing it late).
Could be that you hurried the initial lesson(planted carelessly/didn’t take enough time to mnemonic or comprehend the word deeply).
Dwelling on the reason isn’t that important.
Sometimes crops fail, redo the lesson(fertilize it) or let the SRS reviews naturally strengthen it(water)
BUT WOE UNTO YOU IF YOU REACT TO A FAILED RECALL BY ALLOWING A BAD ATTITUDE TO SPRING UP. NOW EVERYTHING IN THE SOIL WILL BE WEAKENED BY YOUR DOUBTS AND PRIDE.
DONT THROW YOUR HANDS UP AND SAY YOURE UNDER A CURSE CALLED BURN OUT.
YOURE JUST NOT ACCEPTING THE REALITY THAT THE MEMORY NEEDED A BETTER FOUNDATION OR MORE TIMELY RECALLS.
FARMERS GET DEAD OR WEAK CROPS ALL THE TIME, DONT BE SO PROUD TO THINK YOU WONT EITHER.
Memories in your mind work just like a seed planted in the earth will.
Knowing this will help you not be surprised or frustrated by weak or dead recalls.
Who would throw a temper tantrum if their seeds they chucked carelessly into the soil and watered when they felt like it, didn’t grow into a strong tree?
If you take days off your reviews, youre only making your crops weaker by not watering on time.
Sometimes it can’t be helped and life makes you take days off.
BUT TO DO IT INTENTIONALLY BECAUSE OF THIS BURNOUT MYTH?
ITS THE SAME AS THE SLOTHFUL MAN WHO SAYS THERE IS A LION IN THE WAY, A LION IS IN THE STREETS.
FIX YOUR ATTITUDE AND YOULL STOP FEARING A PHANTOM.
Frustration and despair come from not knowing or understanding.
If you know the SIMPLICITY of how your learning mind works as soil and your wanikani lessons as crops, you might be disappointed for a second at recall failures, but not eaten up with ‘burnout’.
You already know the problem and the fix.
The mystery of how a seed seemingly knows it’s in the earth and begins to grow, the same is true for language knowledge you place into your mind. IT CANNOT HELP BUT GROW IF YOU PLANT IT WELL AND WATER(REVIEW) IT FAITHFULLY AND NOT TOO LATE.
RECALLING MEMORY IS LIKE WATERING THE CROP. THERE NEEDS TO BE DELAYS WITH WATERING A CROP, IT NEEDS TIME TO DRINK WHAT YOU GAVE IT.
SRS RECALLING WANIKANI REVIEWS WORKS THE SAME. YOUR MIND NEEDS TIME TO STRENGTHEN THE MEMORY FROM THE RECALL YOU GAVE IT.
DO YOU WANT TO LEARN KANJI OR NOT?
YOU CANT JUST WATER HALFDEAD CROPS ONCE IN A WHILE AND EXPECT TREES WITH STRONG ROOTS. AND GOD FORBID YOU THROW A TEMPER TANTRUM(BURNOUT) AT THE CROPS YOU HAD FORSAKEN BECAUSE THEY ARENT GROWING WELL.
IF THEY DIE, THEY DIE, YOU CAN JUST REDO THEM.
ONCE YOU GOT A BAD ATTITUDE, NOW EVERY SINGLE CROP IS GONNA BE EFFECTED.
SAYING YOU NEED A BREAK FOR BURNOUT IS LIKE THE FARMER CROSSING HIS ARMS AND TELLING HIS INANIMATE CROPS THAT NONE OF THEM GET WATER NOW BECAUSE SOME ARENT GROWING AS STRONG AS HE WANTED THEM TO.
And finally fellow noobs,
He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
AND FOR THOSE FELLOW NOOBS WHO CAN FEEL THEIR HEARTS BURNING WITHIN THEM RIGHT NOW:
Be not deceived; God is not mocked:
FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH, THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP.
REJOICE AT THAT GUARANTEE. NEVER BE DISCOURAGED BY FORUM POSTS EVER AGAIN. PLANT WELL, WATER WELL, YOUR FREE TIME IS THE ONLY LIMIT TO YOUR PROGRESS, NOT THE BURNOUT BOOGIEMAN.
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I always suspected the term “burnout” might just be a psyop. Thank you, 先生. I will take these lessons to heart. 
I am eagerly awaiting your level 60 retrospective. Many of us noobs look up to you. Please keep going.
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That first part wasn’t actually terrible advice, for any pursuit, not just WaniKani.
but I burned out and couldn’t finish reading the rest
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Fellow noobs, I don’t know when it happened but somewhere in the 40’s I started being able to get 1 level per 3 days instead of 7 days. When I first realized it, as you might expect, I danced and rejoiced that Koichi’s chains had finally been loosed. I boasted in my heart about how fast I will finally get all these kanji down. And then I got an old fashioned pride goeth before destruction and an haughty spirit before a fall.
Irl situations and all manner of vanities began to attack me and take my time away. I still pressed on when I could and managed to climb up to 51 while enduring the repayment for my previous boasting.
Anyways, I cannot make an effort post or share a transcendant epiphany at this current time. This post is simply to provide an encouragement for all the furious enemies of Kouichi. His power will weaken significantly at a certain point of your leveling journey.
I think it was around level 45 when I started getting enough kanji per level to go up in 3 days instead of 7. It seems like every level until 60 will be likewise.
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That’s because those are fast levels.
You see, when you get to a new level, some of the kanji are available to you at once, and some would only become available once you guru that level’s radicals.
To get to the next level, you need to guru a certain percentage of that level’s kanji.
Up until around level 45, that percentage is bigger than the immediately available kanji, so you wouldn’t level up until you guru that level’s radicals and then guru the kanji they unlock.
But starting around level 45, the amount of immediately available kanji is enough to satisfy the quota, so once you guru them, you’d get to the next level.
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Excellent thread. Very motivational and energizing. Glad to see their max speed desires paid off.
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I do think that it’s too slow, but I guess the theory is that it needs to be that slow for spaced repetition to work.
I memorize French and German vocabularies with the spare time when I feel like memorizing something, that way I’m progressing in 3 languages slowly instead of just doing a single language slowly
Maybe you could try some playing some Japanese games or some Chinese games in Japanese dub and text since you’re over level 50?
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