About

Welcome to Self-Learner! I’m glad you’ve found your way here because this blog will teach you the philosophy and skills that will help you achieve your goals. We will be talking about getting organized, setting goals and getting them done, self-motivation, and various techniques and tools that you can employ.

Techniques and tools, however, are not going to be of much help if you don’t have the inner game under control. Having a killer blueprint for your affiliate marketing business isn’t going to take you anywhere if you lose motivation early in the game. This is why we are going to build a strong foundation by conditioning your mind to withstand eliminate obstacles that try to hinder your progress.

Being a self-learner is about

  • internal work (getting the right mindset and rebuilding your belief system)
  • becoming interested in many things (stimulating your curiosity and thirst for knowledge)
  • finding purpose in life (focusing on what’s important to you)
  • internalizing knowledge (not just absorbing data)
  • teaching yourself how to do things (you don’t need to take a course to learn how to create a website)
  • challenging yourself (success requires diligence)
  • becoming an invaluable asset in your field of expertise
  • noticing connections between all things in life
  • giving up material possessions that distract you
  • and ultimately, finding enduring happiness.

If you’re intereted to know why I decided to create Self-Learner, you can read about it in the post Why I Started This Blog.

Who manages this blog?

Eric NishioI’m Eric Nishio, the owner of this blog who writes posts and manages things. I live in Southern Finland, practice kung fu, and love to read books and play video games. I am a college student majoring in ICT business, but have also spent a year in Japan as an exchange student and another year working as a language teacher. I still continue to tutor some of my students via Skype. I have also instructed novice and intermediate practitioners of Choy Lee Fut kung fu.

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Most product reviews on Self-Learner contain links that lead to affiliate sales. In other words, I get paid when someone purchases an item through this site. But it is my personal policy to promote only those products that I strongly believe to be the best in the market and that I’ve found useful.