Overcoming learning anxiety

[DIO-Berry]

@alo

Sounds like you’re too fixated on the destination instead of the journey. What helped me was to have a neutral metric for myself. After every level, I would check my level up time on wkstats.com and then see if I was at my average or faster/slower. That lets you compare yourself against yourself.

Oh that note, I’d also like to recommend the userscripts

[Userscript] Overall Progress Bars

This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. Created in response to: a request Adds a progress bar for each level to the dashboard There are ways to display each level: Either as stacked bars showing each SRS level [image] As single-color bars showing the average SRS level of the level [image] Or, as unstacked bars [image] Download at → The B…

(you can visually see your own progress in an appealing way)
and possibly

[Userscript] Progress Percentages

This is a third-party script/app and is not created by the WaniKani team. By using this, you understand that it can stop working at any time or be discontinued indefinitely. What is Progress Percentages This script calculates how many percent you have learned of the kanji on each JLPT level, Joyo grade, Frequency bracket, and various other sources, then displays this on the dashboard. [image] It is similar to the charts on @rfindley’s stats site, which is where I got the idea, b…

This one is more external, but can show you how much kanji on a given metric you should be able to read. You’ll still need grammar studies to actually read, but I think it’s nice for giving you an idea of when it’s a good time to try out various immersive media.