the irony. Don't mourn any change of decision here.

“Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be.” ~Marsha Petrie Sue

a structured approach to help you think through problems and solutions in a logical way. There are six basic steps

Define the problem. Figure out what is causing the problem and how it’s causing problems.

Set goals. Decide what you want your solution to address. It’s important that your goals are realistic and concrete.

Think of solutions. Brainstorm possible solutions. You can also ask friends or loved ones for ideas.

Look at the pros and cons. Pick a few possible solutions that you think might work best, and consider the positives and negatives of your choices.

Pick a solution. Remember, it should describe who does what and what you want to achieve.

Evaluate the results. After you put your plan into action, see if it worked as expected. If it didn’t work, see if your solution needs to be modified or if you need to try a different approach.

You may find that getting a tattoo with 'tsuyoku naritai' isn't your solution.

Japanese ideograms are not the same as 'hieroglyphics,' but here is your sentence:

強くなりたい

mate thank your for your help, I hope interpals would work out there for me, The thing is I don't want to go meta on this, it's just a reminder for myself and that's it, it wasn't designed as a solution for something else

the irony. Don't mourn any change of decision here.

“Stay away from what might have been and look at what will be.” ~Marsha Petrie Sue

a structured approach to help you think through problems and solutions in a logical way. There are six basic steps

Define the problem. Figure out what is causing the problem and how it’s causing problems.

Set goals. Decide what you want your solution to address. It’s important that your goals are realistic and concrete.

Think of solutions. Brainstorm possible solutions. You can also ask friends or loved ones for ideas.

Look at the pros and cons. Pick a few possible solutions that you think might work best, and consider the positives and negatives of your choices.

Pick a solution. Remember, it should describe who does what and what you want to achieve.

Evaluate the results. After you put your plan into action, see if it worked as expected. If it didn’t work, see if your solution needs to be modified or if you need to try a different approach.

You may find that getting a tattoo with 'tsuyoku naritai' isn't your solution.

What are you trying to do? If a Japanese person with passable English would be able to help, then head on over to a language-exchange website such as InterPals and trade English instruction for whatever you need. If you need someone who speaks high-level English and it's okay if their Japanese is only passable, then go to a forum such as Koohii and make your request to the large population of people learning Japanese. If you need someone high level in both languages, well, you'll have a harder time. Such people are uncommon and not likely to work for free.

Can anyone help think of a clever name for a quantitative consulting company? LW in-jokes allowed.

sorry, not sure if this should be posted here, but I hadn't yet found more rational strategy for my problem. If any of you guys know someone who can speak and write Japanese please contact me, I would very appreciate any help

Based on what I have just read you have nothing to worry about

I'm not sure whether I should try harder to convert her or give up.

There no reason to think that trying harder would produce bigger effects. If your goal is convincing it's very important to pick your battles.

I had a disagreement with my girlfriend about the health effects of the microwave. She thinks that feeding a plant only microwaved water will kill it. That happens to be a quite testable belief and we might run the experiment even if I don't believe that it will produce additional knowledge for me.

You could check whether her beliefs make predictions about the real world and then do credence calibration games with her. You train the important rationalist skill of predicting and she might find out that some of her beliefs don't make true predictions.

This topic is valuable me. Every time when me and my girlfriend getting involved in argument it ends up badly and we continue on holding prior beliefs. She blames me for being too rational (In hollywood sense obv, none of my efforts to convince that the word has different meaning payed off). She is absolutely sure that when you hold a skeptical position, you are getting trapped into it, so entry gate for outside view is closed and you are limiting the spectrum of possibilities. With this I'm okay because I like to think of myself as an open-minded person and I can assume that the universe is not objective. But I'm rapidly getting tired when it comes to secret meanings of events and perfect casuality and total misunderstanding of randomness. In her head there is a strange mash of esoterics, buddhism, astrology somehow combined with evolutionary biology in perfect harmony. I'm not sure whether I should try harder to convert her or give up. Maybe I gave up already, because it seems that open-minded people lack neuroplasticity