Learn Japanese Today

So I’m a reporter at a newspaper, and every now and then my brain gets fried from thinking about a story too hard. I won’t know who to call for a good quote or how to put together the information I have, or sometimes I just don’t want to get started. I think these are common problems with any job. Sometimes your brain just doesn’t want to work at the same thing all day.

Well, it doesn’t have to. If you haven’t already, you should install your SRS at work and whenever your mind doesn’t want to do the task at hand, do 5 minutes of SRSing and then try again. This is not only good for helping you clear your head and actually get your work done, it also gets your daily SRS reps in. Two birds with one stone.

Don’t think of SRSing as a chore. I like to think of it as “unwasting” my time. Whenever I catch myself checking my blog stats for the fifth time in a day, or browsing through facebook photos of high school acquaintances, a little switch flips in the back of my head to tell me I’m wasting time. Before I started doing daily SRS reps, I would just ignore this feeling, but now whenever I feel like I’m wasting time, I do some SRS and “unwaste” it. Giving yourself a pat on the back for not wasting your life makes SRS reps that much more fun.

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