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Cold Showers Help You to Learn a Language 

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Could cold showers actually help you to learn a language? Yes.
Let's find out why cold showers are one of the simplest things you can do to improve your language learning, to learn a language faster.
Cold showers have been used by guys like Matt D'Avella and Nathaniel Drew as a way of toughening up mentally. Taking cold showers helps you to focus more time on what is important, but the showers also taught me the value of just starting. The funny thing about cold showers are that they are only unpleasant for the first 20 seconds or so; after that it's basically the same and in fact quite pleasant. The same often goes for language learning: We don't want to do the things that we know we should, but often once we start doing them, we find them to be not that bad. Cold showers are often taken to increase mental toughness, and I have found that to be absolutely the case. Cold showers have increased my focus, and as a result, on good days, I have spent almost three hours on the tasks that I am supposed to be working on, which is three times as long as I was able to before.
The last language learning habit that cold showers have helped me with is in the momentum of habits and goals. When I first set the goal of cold showers, the goal was 10 days. Then I decided to see what that would be like if I went for 100 days, and I realised that 10 days was easy and in fact 100 days of cold showers was very doable. It has really made me think about where my goals come from; normally it's from what is 'normal', and that is not a good place to get your goals. In order to see extraordinary results, we must take extraordinary measures.
In March, I aim to learn 3000 new French words. Sounds insane? Maybe it is, but it's less insane than trying to learn 100 words a month and then failing because the goal was pointless anyway. 3000 French words in the month of March, let's do it!
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Комментарии : 66   
@AmyJLiang
@AmyJLiang 4 года назад
It also made my skin stop flaking. Imma be one smooth polyglot.
@dnsstephan
@dnsstephan 4 года назад
😂
@timothylam3314
@timothylam3314 4 года назад
Ikr eczema is the worst hahaha
@TruthSerum
@TruthSerum 4 года назад
Next Video: brazilian jiu jitsu for language learning!
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Haha, well, not quite that far but some of the videos this year may seem almost that bizarre... sport is definitely involved but I am a bit too much of a wuss to go into something where people stronger and better trained than me are going to try to hurt me haha. Maybe by 2023 I will be brave enough for that.
@samljer
@samljer 4 года назад
Brazilian Ju jutsu for learning portugese, :D that shit made me laugh
@TruthSerum
@TruthSerum 4 года назад
@@samljer hahaha love it!
@stephanpeterthree
@stephanpeterthree 4 года назад
Days of French 'n' Swedish do bjj ... it is even better than language learning. Started getting into language learning when I was injured and could not train. Both can get you out of difficult situations ^^
@CCalquemist
@CCalquemist 4 года назад
Bro I wish! I wanted to do BJJ for a few years
@justemichel
@justemichel 4 года назад
Some people keep their daily goal low, hoping they will match their goal for more days and maybe they will. I am not afraid to take days off. The most important is to come back.
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
C'est vrai. I think low and easy goal setting is good for people new to goals. But after that I think people should habitually step it up.
@sjf96
@sjf96 4 года назад
I've been taking cold showers for five years and it has indeed changed my life. My entire mentality around "relaxation" and comfort has been ever since. Someone said (paraphrasing, slightly), "taking a cold shower is like starting your day with a boss fight that you win. It instills greater confidence in yourself for the day". I've definitely felt that to be true, buttressed by the research in people lulled to sleep by warm showers at the start of the day. I've lost the mental calm and emotional stability aspects, in part because I'm not taking them at the absolute lowest temperature setting that my shower can manage (ice water, in winter, in New York). My greatest joy in the cold shower is the brevity and invigoration for the day. Rather than a dull background urge to tuck in from the warmth, my mind is racing with ideas: mind razor sharp, muscles activated (aside: flexing helps with the warm-to-cold adjustment for those rough mornings), ready for the day. I'm now loathe to take a warm shower and enjoy the cold, so it's time to get back in the ice; no more of this colder-than-lukewarm-but-not-as-cold-as-you-can-handle :) Thanks for the reminder.
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Honestly man if I was in NY in winter, I probably wouldn't talk such a big game myself haha. My 'cold' water here is like 63° F I think (it's about 17° C). I think it helps me more on mornings that I have to be creative, and less on mornings that I have to go to my boring job. So I am trying to wake up early enough to do some language or some writing or something before work (which if freakin' early). Yesterday I worked outside all day in about 97° and a cold shower was a pleasure at the end of it. Feel free to keep me updated on your adventures with it!
@MelissaJetzt
@MelissaJetzt 4 года назад
Honest question though. I tried cold showers a couple times and I literally hyperventilated each time. So presumably THE coldest setting mustn't be absolutely necessary?
@downey2294
@downey2294 4 года назад
new idea. don't take showers at all! you can shave off those extra 2 minutes plus you don't have to waste your time undressing yourself. that's right you'll get a whopping 12 hours per year extra.
@ragaya3043
@ragaya3043 3 года назад
Idk man, not everything is about wasting time, what about the benefits it could bring you?
@downey2294
@downey2294 3 года назад
@@ragaya3043 extra benefits like, stinky aura. you wont have to worry about not being immersed in the target language because of those pesky coworkers or friends or worse... parents. everyone will be repelled by your smell so that you get to enjoy language learning even more.
@ragaya3043
@ragaya3043 3 года назад
@@downey2294 LMAO well jokes on you, my bad smell throws even me off Also I just realized you were probably joking on the og comment lol
@richardhartung1576
@richardhartung1576 2 года назад
i am taking a hot bath per day~ and studying at the same time. Relaxing study is productive study ~
@suzubee9602
@suzubee9602 3 года назад
I watched this and took a cold shower
@mchobbit2951
@mchobbit2951 4 года назад
Oh god nooo. Never. I'm a tiny woman who is constantly freezing. I already dread taking a normal shower from November to mid March and literally have to force myself to do it every day. I'm not tough enough for this. I'd literally rather learn French and Russian more slowly vs. take even one cold shower.
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Yah don't worry, I've stopped too. Even Australian winter is too cold for me haha.
@CCalquemist
@CCalquemist 4 года назад
I've been taking cold showers for like two years now, and I'm like 8 months without taking a single hot shower. I'm not sure about what changes in me are because of that, because you also mature and grow in 2 years or even those 8 months, but I can say that it improves my mood and feels really really great at some point. I don't have much problem motivating myself to study languages (currently learning German and Japanese, just because I woke up feeling like wanting to do so), but that's also because I make the process fun and challenging
@KhallDrake
@KhallDrake 3 года назад
I just started luke-warm showers. After the initial shock, they are nicer than hot showers. I can stay in longer...
@bluecladchipmunk
@bluecladchipmunk 4 года назад
Speaking to the points you made near the end of the video, what can you do in your day to make language learning a part of your day? I've started to change the language settings on self-check in stores and movie theaters ect. to my target language now that I'm significantly into the A2 level. There's still several things I get confused on however it makes it a part of my day. And it highlights things that I don't know yet. If I am meandering from lesson to lesson, and I come across something I don't know I can either look it up or ask my teacher. It gives a jummping off point. It also helps me think on the target language. TLDR: using the self check-in your target language helps you think in your target language
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Yeah... another thing is switching your gmail over. This is pretty intense because a LOT of websites use the data from your gmail to decide what language to display, so my gmail being in French has led to RU-vid being in French (which I could change but I don't need to), but also stuff like AirBnb which I use about every 3 weeks, and that one is actually quite tricky. Then a lot of online stores and stuff... If I was spending money, I used to make sure to switch it back because I didn't want to make a mistake that cost me money, but these days I just have to make sure I read and understand stuff. As to your question, was it actually a question for me or were you asking a rhetorical question that you then answered?
@bluecladchipmunk
@bluecladchipmunk 4 года назад
@@daysandwords oh! It was a rhetorical question. Sorry.
@paradoxo9111
@paradoxo9111 4 года назад
I think I'll start putting a timer on in my bathroom before showering. And maybe I'll do the cold shower thing next time I take one.
@10drae.v0
@10drae.v0 3 года назад
i’m at uni at the moment and i literally cant shower for longer than a few minutes because it starts hot and then it goes cold, may as well just go full cold now hahahaha
@kathryngordon7364
@kathryngordon7364 4 года назад
I wasn't expecting this much math 😁
@BrentStrathdeePehi
@BrentStrathdeePehi 4 года назад
I get the same effect from boxing 🥊 which I took up about 7 years ago (long before language learning). After you get used to the gruelling training and getting punched full on in the face and your so exhausted your ready to puke 🤮- EVERYTHING after that seems easier, doable and not as hard as you might have thought ! I might add cold 🚿 and take it up a notch!
@DoingEvil01
@DoingEvil01 4 года назад
How cold is cold? In the U.S. north, that water comes out just a few degrees above freezing this time of year.
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Not cold here. I said that haha. One day the ambient temperature was 13° which is like... 54 or something... not cold.
@bingermanvlogz4087
@bingermanvlogz4087 4 года назад
Almost 3k ;)
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Ha, not quite yet but yeah.
@carleindegasoline8704
@carleindegasoline8704 4 года назад
I have been taking only cold showers there is almost 2 years!
@alancoe1002
@alancoe1002 3 года назад
According to The Ice Man, Wim Hof, 2min. cold shower is enough. Benefits taper off after that. The first week takes all kinds of mental gymnastics to just march into the blast. But if my skinny self can do it, you would-be Vikings can also. I invented a Viking saying you can use as you attack the water: "Acceptance and Gratitude for the breath of the fish". See you in Asgard!
@athenagreen5390
@athenagreen5390 4 года назад
Hang on... a 10 minute show is a long time for you??? My average showers are between 30 minutes and 1 hour!!! Am I weird???
@r21guns74
@r21guns74 4 года назад
Haha I thought the same! I may be wrong, but I think women generally take more time in the shower. Men tend to be in and out in a flash! 10 minutes is very quick for me!
@OGrandomunknownperson
@OGrandomunknownperson 4 года назад
@@r21guns74 depends lol . When I am sad or bored I can shower for 45 minutes but when I have shit to do it's only 8 minutes or so
@catboyhole
@catboyhole 4 года назад
an hour is super long. i think like 15-20 is average.
@nicoles_handle
@nicoles_handle 4 года назад
feelsbad i do 30 mins too: brushing teeth, facial wash, hair wash, conditioner and soap. not sure why it takes so long.
@cassiazaharia4776
@cassiazaharia4776 4 года назад
Same
@saulgoodman4451
@saulgoodman4451 2 года назад
Yo. Sleeping under moon light under the third Thursday of every fourth month makes you fluent
@Mateo-et3wl
@Mateo-et3wl 4 года назад
march is over! how many french words did you learn?
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
So, I wrote down around 3500 in my book, but would only have learned a few 100 of them. I was going to do a video on the whole process and how I got it wrong and what I would need to do next time etc., but I am still working it out and I may even do one on Swedish instead now that I am finally OK with using Anki (which I think would be basically necessary to do it). But I want to do a really good video about the whole process, not just "I tried and it didn't work".
@helenaribeiro250
@helenaribeiro250 4 года назад
I keep a big bowl of water in my fridge for those days when I really need to start the day. I just put my head into that extra cold water for a few seconds and I wake up instantly. I also use it for anxiety and panic attacks because it almost feels like a "reset " for my brain. On the other hand, I can't stand cold showers because my hair is so long it takes me 30 minutes to wash it 🙃
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
That is intense haha.
@clara_hp6254
@clara_hp6254 3 года назад
I really love your concept of holistic language learning but I feel like it only works if you learn one language at a time… right now I’m learning three languages in school and one in my free time. Any tips on how to include four languages into your life ?
@danieltemelkovski9828
@danieltemelkovski9828 2 года назад
Wow, so four languages all up? That's gonna take a lot of cold-showering.
@clara_hp6254
@clara_hp6254 2 года назад
@@danieltemelkovski9828 haha I‘m aware😂😂, I’ve put my main focus on two though, bc I don’t really care about the third one but I have to learn it in school and I‘m already at an intermediate level in the fourth one ( English) + I‘ll spent some time in the USA next year , so that might help 😂
@danieltemelkovski9828
@danieltemelkovski9828 2 года назад
@@clara_hp6254 Cripes, you call that an intermediate level of English? There's only two teeny-weeny things you said in that reply that are less than flawless English, and if you hadn't already said you're learning English I would have simply overlooked them. Those things are "I'm aware", whereas "I'm aware of that" would probably be tad more appropriate, but this isn't a big deal at all; and "I have to learn it at school" sounds a bit better than "in school" (at least when you're talking about what you're studying). So if that's "intermediate" English, phew, my French hardly ranks as above beginner. (What are the other languages?)
@clara_hp6254
@clara_hp6254 2 года назад
@@danieltemelkovski9828 aww, thank you . That’s really nice😊 I vacillated between I’m aware and I’m aware of that 😂. I said intermediate bc I don’t struggle when I’m explaining simple things but when I have to explain something more complicated or more in depth I’m missing a lot of vocabulary… So I’m prioritizing French and Swedish right now bc I really like French and I’m now at a level at which I’m good enough to read books and stuff like that which is really fun and I’m learning Swedish bc I‘d love to study there. The fourth language is Spanish but I don’t love it tbh. It’s like French but with simpler structures. However, to me Spanish conjugation is even more confusing than French conjugation. Do you learn any other language besides French ?
@danieltemelkovski9828
@danieltemelkovski9828 2 года назад
@@clara_hp6254 You have to be a bit careful with "I'm aware of that". With happy emojis, it's fine. But if you left the emojis out, it'd make you sound kinda humorless, because "I'm aware of that" is the way you'd reply to someone who was testing your patience (even faintly insulting you) by telling you things you already know, like "when you get in the car, you have to put your seatbelt on". So if you weren't going to use emojis in your reply to me, a simple "I know!" would have been a better choice. "...more in depth, I find I lack the vocabulary..." is slightly a more natural way to phrase that. "Do you study/are you studying/are you learning any other languages?" is a better way to ask that. Are you comfortable having French conversations? I can understand a good deal of French youtubes (not language learning, just people talking about different things I'm interested in, fitness, history etc), and I can read non-fiction in subjects I know something about without looking up definitions every five words, but novels are still a bit too trying. Even social media commenting in French makes me a bit nervous because I'm not sure I'm good enough to not look like a complete idiot. Spanish was the first language I ever tried learning. I got a bit further than where I am with French now, except I could also have simple live conversations and mostly understand people (who for tended to overrate my ability) when they spoke full speed to me. Weirdly though, I've really lost interest in it. An interesting point about conjugation is that when I was studying Spanish, I spent a lot of time doing traditional grammar drills. In French, I just decided to (mostly) skip that, and as far as my comprehension goes, it doesn't seem to have hurt me at all. I've also racked up few thousand duolingo points in Dutch, German and Italian too, because I wanted to see "what they're like". Funny thing is, I'm certain if I spent as much time on any one of these as I have with French, I'd be way further than I am with French. Italian has always felt shockingly easy to understand even without studying it (like, "language learner" Italian youtubes, I understand the vast majority of). And with German and Dutch, maybe I'm imagining things, but the way things are said makes sense to me much more than it does in French. Where do you live that Spanish is compulsory? It can't be America if you're learning English. Switzerland?
@archdukefranzferdinand567
@archdukefranzferdinand567 4 года назад
Did you hit 100 days?
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Yep, and then on 101 I stopped haha. There was a particularly cold April day and I stopped - but even now in Winter I occasionally go full cold at the end because it makes getting out a lot nicer.
@ragaya3043
@ragaya3043 4 года назад
I don't think I've ever taken a warm shower (if I did I probably didn't want to) so oop Idk if I would be less productive if I were to take warm showers? Im def not very productive rn so I dunno lol
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Hahaha.
@RB-dc2mp
@RB-dc2mp 4 года назад
I'd do this if I didn't have Raynaud's T_T
@daysandwords
@daysandwords 4 года назад
Oh, that sucks. I'm sure there are other things you can do though.
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