according to a growing body of evidence, the decline in the rate of language learning around age 18 is not a feature of our biology. It’s a bug in our education. Polyglots prove that it’s possible to master new languages well into
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“It is often said that the best teacher is failure. This is true. But it is also the best killer. May you be lucky enough in failure to live”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“merely because something is more standard or conventional”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“It was the eternal irony of the capable rhetorician: train to find holes in any philosophy”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“the substance of our existence is not in the achievement”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“Most battles weren’t about killing everyone who stood against you; they were instead about getting your enemy to stop fighting.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
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