Comments on: Analysis paralysis and learning Chinese: When thinking too much holds you back https://www.hackingchinese.com/analysis-paralysis-choosing-method-becomes-problem/ A better way of learning Mandarin Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:28:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/analysis-paralysis-choosing-method-becomes-problem/#comment-132774 Wed, 14 May 2025 15:07:29 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9047#comment-132774 In reply to Tristan.

Glad to hear you found the course well-structured! 🙂 I think I do cover the case you mentioned, but it’s not very prominent. Below the bullet list with types of paralysis, it says:

“The worst case of analysis paralysis is putting off getting started with learning Chinese because you are not sure how to begin. If that sounds like you, check out my course Unlocking Chinese.”

Is that what you had in mind or did you mean something eles?

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By: Tristan https://www.hackingchinese.com/analysis-paralysis-choosing-method-becomes-problem/#comment-132768 Wed, 14 May 2025 11:03:00 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9047#comment-132768 I’ve faced analysis paralysis several times. Speaking for sure, I also had it after finishing the Unlocking Chinese course as I went from something well structured to being lost in possibilities.

One thing that happened to me that doesn’t seem to be covered in the article, is that at the very beginning, I spent too much time reading about how to learn rather than just doing it.

I think some of that was important, but I avoided starting because it was more comfortable to read about how to learn Chinese than to do it.

So not exactly analysis paralysis, but possibly an underlying cause perhaps?

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By: Olle Linge https://www.hackingchinese.com/analysis-paralysis-choosing-method-becomes-problem/#comment-18701 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 11:15:28 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9047#comment-18701 In reply to Mr. Wilson.

Ha, true xkcd style. 🙂

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By: Mr. Wilson https://www.hackingchinese.com/analysis-paralysis-choosing-method-becomes-problem/#comment-18692 Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:01:08 +0000 http://www.hackingchinese.com/?p=9047#comment-18692 I keep hovering my mouse over the pictures and expecting to find an extra joke in the title popup…

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