I first encountered ambiguity tolerance when i was learning french during my BA period (i was actually intolerant because my "highly-fresh-out-of-high school" mind couldn't comprehend this new language). Therefore, i started spending more than a decade to become ambiguity tolerant (i believe i REALLY HAVE become ambiguity tolerant). This transformation in part happened through some attempts to learn languages harder-to-comprehend than french (German and Finnish, in my case), but the more important factor was my art practices (i've been painting in postmodern style for seven years. These art practices have made me more ambiguity tolerant because if at first i wanted to be a perfectionist, now i can say i'm a recovering perfectionist).
That's an insightful example. It works across other domains too, not just languages. It's mostly about allowing unconscious learning to do its thing and not interfer too much with our surface level thoughts, conscious memorization and desire to control. Art is much like that, finding flow, getting to a point where you aren't focused on minut details. Good to hear your story! Finnish, any person who can reach any kind of basic fluency is a champion - it is one of the hardest languages to learn for many reasons - one being it is so far unrelated to most linguistic families.
Thanks for sharing your insights on this matter. Sth i don't usually tell many people is that my passion for art stems from not only being born and raised in Shiraz, one of the cities where you can find soooooo many art forms, but also my name (one of the meanings of my first name is "an artist"). Yes, Finnish is a very hard language to learn, not only because it's apart from the language of Scandinavian countries, but is also far unrelated to other language groups.
I first encountered ambiguity tolerance when i was learning french during my BA period (i was actually intolerant because my "highly-fresh-out-of-high school" mind couldn't comprehend this new language). Therefore, i started spending more than a decade to become ambiguity tolerant (i believe i REALLY HAVE become ambiguity tolerant). This transformation in part happened through some attempts to learn languages harder-to-comprehend than french (German and Finnish, in my case), but the more important factor was my art practices (i've been painting in postmodern style for seven years. These art practices have made me more ambiguity tolerant because if at first i wanted to be a perfectionist, now i can say i'm a recovering perfectionist).
That's an insightful example. It works across other domains too, not just languages. It's mostly about allowing unconscious learning to do its thing and not interfer too much with our surface level thoughts, conscious memorization and desire to control. Art is much like that, finding flow, getting to a point where you aren't focused on minut details. Good to hear your story! Finnish, any person who can reach any kind of basic fluency is a champion - it is one of the hardest languages to learn for many reasons - one being it is so far unrelated to most linguistic families.
Thanks for sharing your insights on this matter. Sth i don't usually tell many people is that my passion for art stems from not only being born and raised in Shiraz, one of the cities where you can find soooooo many art forms, but also my name (one of the meanings of my first name is "an artist"). Yes, Finnish is a very hard language to learn, not only because it's apart from the language of Scandinavian countries, but is also far unrelated to other language groups.