Exhausted but Happy Edition
I’m getting used to my new schedule as an eikaiwa teacher and enjoying getting a good overview of my wife’s school. Very tired but it’s fulfilling and I even lost some weight (3kg).
Maybe I could repackage this experience as a weight loss course.
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This week’s books
I’m still on the Reacher train. Finished The Enemy (which is a good one) and started One Shot (which is excellent -I’m not surprised Tom Cruise chose it for the first Reacher movie).
This week’s gear
For this week’s gear, I’m going to go with the Hario hand mill I use. I have three of these (one at home, one at work, and another in the office) and love it. It’s adjustable, the action feels nice, and it grinds well. I find grinding by hand fairly soothing as well -it’s a kind of meditation before getting to the caffeine!
This week’s links
- Dear god. Which of these three characters do you want as the mascot of Osaka’s World Expo?
- This story resonated: travelling with small children is bad enough at the best of times. But: Be the mercy
- Great interview with Morgan Housel (content starts at the 5m mark)
- Is Japan listening? Can Korea Teach Japan How to Grow Again?
- Let’s hope the government finds a shortcut: The road to renewable energy in Japan, a top CO2 emitter
- I like the theory about marriage: Low expectations
- Japan as number one: Visualizing the State of Global Debt, by Country
- This guy is so solid, even on personal finance: How Mr. Beast Became Successful on YouTube
- Seems like a good local volunteer activity: Homeless in Kannai
- Pretty standard stuff for the financially literate crowd. I certainly wouldn’t swap places with the richest person in the world 100 years ago: The Prosperity Paradox
What do you think? Anything interesting in there?
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Just curious, how many lessons are you teaching a week? It must be quite a jump from your previous University schedule.
On an emergency basis, just this month… about 30 a week. That is on top of my regular activities doing management, curriculum, RetireJapan, coaching, etc.
The first week was very tiring, as I didn’t know the children, but now we all got used to each other it’s been kind of fun ^-^
#8, I listened to the whole interview as the guy repeatedly amazed me repeatedly. What rock have I been living under as I’d never heard of him?
Yeah, he’s so so solid. I don’t watch his content, but his interviews are amazing.
And he’s 23!!!!
I agree with you, his interviews are perhaps more impressive than his YouTube content and I hope those get more visibility. He has such a refreshing view on life in general, hope he can mentor a few more folks.