Nope, not at all. You and only you decide if a thing is worth doing. If you want to learn Mandarin, so what? You will probably never be a best-selling or criti

Nope, not at all. You and only you decide if a thing is worth doing. If you want to learn Mandarin, so what? You will probably never be a best-selling or critically acclaimed author of Mandarin books. You are unlikely to be the next star in a Mandarin-singing boy-or girl-band. You will not be a TV host reading the news in Mandarin. What of it? Does learning even a little Mandarin give you pleasure? Do it! It’s insane to judge everything in your life by whether you are going to be in the top one tenth of one percentile. That is a recipe for constant stress an unhappiness, for forever judging yourself by impossible standards and coming up short.