Occupation: Interpretation/Translation (Mostly English and Japanese, in both directions)
Goal : To Win.
I found this site through Overcoming Bias, and had already been lurking at the latter for years beforehand. When I first came across Overcoming Bias, it was for too difficult for me. I have since become stronger, enough to read most of its archives and become even stronger. I intend to keep this positive cycle active.
I must say that I hardly feel like a newcomer due to those years of lurking in the shadows. Let’s see how the light feels.
Not “A” win, but winning in general, Winning at Life if you will.
To me, this means :
Staying true to myself, becoming only what I decide I want to be (which is in turn based on achieving sub-goals)
Achieving my lesser and short-term goals.
Being able to constantly improve myself
Not Dying (I’m only not signed up for cryo because I live in Japan and have trouble with the creation of a suitable policy. Ideally, I’d like to go transhuman.)
Explicit failure scenarios involve becoming a future self that stays still instead of moving forward. If I became a person who was satisfied with the status quo without any desire to expand her horizons, that would be a dramatic failure.
Another possibility to avoid is giving in to biology, blindly following urges and, yes, succumbing to biases.
In other words, Winning is Future-Bending to get to be the Me I want to be.
I often get frustrated by definitions like yours, because they are so recursive. Moving through your criteria, you want to be true to yourself (references ‘yourself’), achieve your goals (references ‘your goals’), improve yourself (references ‘yourself’), and not die (implicitly references the continued existence of your self).
Do you have any notion at all of what the self is that you’re trying to be true to and improve? Put another way, why would it be a tragedy if you died?
Please don’t take this as a personal attack—I don’t know you, and don’t dislike you. I just want to learn more about your reasoning.
I often get frustrated by definitions like yours, because they are so recursive. Moving through your criteria, you want to be true to yourself (references ‘yourself’), achieve your goals (references ‘your goals’), improve yourself (references ‘yourself’), and not die (implicitly references the continued existence of your self).
Do you have any notion at all of what the self is that you’re trying to be true to and improve? Put another way, why would it be a tragedy if you died?
Please don’t take this as a personal attack—I don’t know you, and don’t dislike you. I just want to learn more about your reasoning.
Oh really? Where are you based, if you don’t mind my asking?
I’m in Kansai myself.
Yes, both directions, mostly out of necessity. Being in-house, sometimes it isn’t possible to have someone on hand with the right native language. Working into my non-native language is hard, but also a great a learning experience.
I work freelance, so I’d probably never be asked to translate into my non-native language, given that other freelancers could do it much better and more cheaply. Sometimes I wish I had the chance, though, because I’d surely learn a lot.
Handle: Nanani
Location: Japan
Age: 25
Gender: Female (not that it matters)
Education: BSc Astrophysics
Occupation: Interpretation/Translation (Mostly English and Japanese, in both directions)
Goal : To Win.
I found this site through Overcoming Bias, and had already been lurking at the latter for years beforehand. When I first came across Overcoming Bias, it was for too difficult for me. I have since become stronger, enough to read most of its archives and become even stronger. I intend to keep this positive cycle active.
I must say that I hardly feel like a newcomer due to those years of lurking in the shadows. Let’s see how the light feels.
But what does a win look like to you?
Not “A” win, but winning in general, Winning at Life if you will.
To me, this means :
Staying true to myself, becoming only what I decide I want to be (which is in turn based on achieving sub-goals)
Achieving my lesser and short-term goals.
Being able to constantly improve myself
Not Dying (I’m only not signed up for cryo because I live in Japan and have trouble with the creation of a suitable policy. Ideally, I’d like to go transhuman.)
Explicit failure scenarios involve becoming a future self that stays still instead of moving forward. If I became a person who was satisfied with the status quo without any desire to expand her horizons, that would be a dramatic failure. Another possibility to avoid is giving in to biology, blindly following urges and, yes, succumbing to biases.
In other words, Winning is Future-Bending to get to be the Me I want to be.
I often get frustrated by definitions like yours, because they are so recursive. Moving through your criteria, you want to be true to yourself (references ‘yourself’), achieve your goals (references ‘your goals’), improve yourself (references ‘yourself’), and not die (implicitly references the continued existence of your self).
Do you have any notion at all of what the self is that you’re trying to be true to and improve? Put another way, why would it be a tragedy if you died?
Please don’t take this as a personal attack—I don’t know you, and don’t dislike you. I just want to learn more about your reasoning.
I often get frustrated by definitions like yours, because they are so recursive. Moving through your criteria, you want to be true to yourself (references ‘yourself’), achieve your goals (references ‘your goals’), improve yourself (references ‘yourself’), and not die (implicitly references the continued existence of your self).
Do you have any notion at all of what the self is that you’re trying to be true to and improve? Put another way, why would it be a tragedy if you died?
Please don’t take this as a personal attack—I don’t know you, and don’t dislike you. I just want to learn more about your reasoning.
So does your name mean “seven two”? (n00b student of Japanese here)
Yes it does, but only incidentally. It’s been my nickname since before I realized I could write it as 72 (七二).
How are your studies progressing?
Hi! I’m a J-E translator in Japan as well. Both directions? Wow.
Oh really? Where are you based, if you don’t mind my asking? I’m in Kansai myself.
Yes, both directions, mostly out of necessity. Being in-house, sometimes it isn’t possible to have someone on hand with the right native language. Working into my non-native language is hard, but also a great a learning experience.
I’m in Kansai as well.
I work freelance, so I’d probably never be asked to translate into my non-native language, given that other freelancers could do it much better and more cheaply. Sometimes I wish I had the chance, though, because I’d surely learn a lot.