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How to train yourself to run, write, speak or sing?

Fang Jin
6 min readApr 5, 2024
Photo by Tim Bish on Unsplash

It is a tough business in teaching yourself anything, because if it’s that easy, you most likely have already done it. It’s hard to train a dog with new tricks. I’m sure for lots of us who has tried in the past, we know how hard it can get. Let me give you couple of tasks before you decide how difficult they can be.

  • Run a marathon
  • Write a book
  • Talk in a different language
  • Sing in three octave ranges

You might have different list on your mind. Sure, everyone has one, the difference is whether you can cross one out of the list some day and mark it done.

Let me share you something I believe you would need to make that happen.

Time is what you have

The reason I can start to show you how to train yourself is there’re some similarities in between all the items listed. For instance, they all take time to get it accomplished.

Yes, they take tons of time, they take centuries, at least that’s how we feel.It’ll take tremendous of your time, and you better get ready for that in your mental picture. This means, if you want to attempt anything like that, you need to give yourself enough time. If you don’t want to put five years into it, at least you need…

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Fang Jin
Fang Jin

Written by Fang Jin

Front-end Engineer, book author of “Designing React Hooks the Right Way” and "Think in Recursion"

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