Reassurance—while it’s calming—never lasts. Godin says:

There’s never enough reassurance to make up for a lack of commitment to the practice.

Reassurance is short-term. It amplifies attachment. It shifts our focus from pursuing the practice to maneuvering it to ensure success. So—useful feedback, not reassurance. For example, in my Swedish language learning, there is little use if my Sfi teacher just reassures me that I will do great in the language without giving me feedback on where I had made mistakes or how I […]

In 2.5 pages in The Practice, Seth Godin explains how to strike a balance between saying “yes” and “no” to focus on the change we seek to make, the generous work of making our own contribution.

But beware. […]

“Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” —Zora Neale Hurston, American writer and anthropologist

This TED Talk will improve our understanding of the way language works and our view of dictionaries. I have thoroughly enjoyed it and it’s a good 17 minutes spent.

Language change, according to language historian and English professor Anne Curzan (emphasis mine): "The language is not going to change so fast that we can’t keep up; language just doesn’t work that way. […]