Tag Archives: learning
Going vegetarian for a week
After much thought and encouragement from friends and family, I am officially a vegetarian for a week. Starting yesterday. There are many reasons why someone would want to be a vegetarian, and I don’t necessarily want to have that discussion here, but I’ve been thinking about it long enough that it’s time to actually try [...]
Learning, just like at school
A few weeks ago I discovered a website that TechCruch calls “Hulu for Education.” The website is actually called “Academic Earth” and features easy to find and watch lectures on many subjects. As someone who has been a big fan of MIT’s Open CourseWare for years, I naturally got really excited and tonight I finally [...]
What happened to Sales training?
From the Sales and Sales Management Blog, comes a guest post by Jonathan Farrington discussing the consequences of reduced opportunities for sales training, and the importance of ongoing personal training: During the seventies, eighties and nineties, it was common for large corporations such as Hewlett Packard, IBM, and Compaq etc to put their new sales recruits through [...]
Getting started in Sales
How does one get started in sales? And what kind of sales? The old conundrum of starting any new career is that it’s hard to start without any prior experience to guide you along, and give you credibility when talking to someone about it. When I was looking for my way into the profession, I [...]
Study Habits and More Commitments
In the post below, I described how with some effort I might be able to become a CEBS this year. Here is a tentative schedule I will follow. This schedule is tentative because I am not sure I will be able to follow it: I am getting married in August, and work is busy as [...]
CEBS and CLU
It’s been almost 3 years since I graduated from college and I feel like I haven’t stopped learning new things, nor has the pace slowed down since leaving the ivory towers of Boulder. Now I’ll have even more opportunities to advance my education. The company I work for rewards (with cash) employees who pursue and [...]
Another Japanese Test and suddenly having to improve my Russian
While browsing all things Japanese online, I can across another Japanese language proficiency test. This one is administered by JETRO and is called Business Japanese Proficiency Test (“BJT”). Apparently, it too has credibility in the market place. I guess it doesn’t matter which test I take (though I am inclined to take both), as long [...]
Learning Japanese: Starting From Scratch
I took a sample JLPT yesterday and realized that I need to start studying Japanese all over again, from the beginning. My goal this year will be to pass the “Level 4″ exam. The next step is to create a plan of study I can execute before the day of the test.
Japanese Language Proficiency
It’s hard to believe that it has been 11 years since I seriously studied Japanese, and 12 years since I left Japan. During this time, I felt the language slowly wither away – every time I would watch a Japanese movie or TV I would notice that I understood less and less. It would be [...]
Update on my projects