Bite Sized Life Lessons

If you have read Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers, you know the answer : the 10,000 hours rule. But the problem is practice that much time only is not enough. Photo Credit :  874791 via photopin   (license) The 10,000 hours rule concept was introduced in academic circles in the early 1970s, and was popularized by Malcolm in his 2008 book. That's approximately 20 hours a week for 10 years. If you want to be a world class performer, this cannot be avoided. Every greatest man on this world got through this, no matter how talented or genius you are, you will not become the best on the world without live through vigorous training before you show yourself to the world. Even Ernest Hemingway did it, Van Gough had drawn countless drawing before making a contemporary painting we enjoy today. And maybe you already know, Michael Jordan trained himself a lot of freethrows and numerous core training everyday before he becomes a legend. But, it won't make any different, if you...

In order to lift your life to greatness or just make it better, you need to "upgrade" your communication skills. A lot of things happen around you is depend to others. You sell things to others, you finish big project by collaborating with others, you have more fun if you go out with others, you build a family with others (obviously 😁), etc. Almost everything on life, you communicate with other human being. That is why it is important. Don't ever think that you can survive being alone, at least if you want to live a good life, you can't. So I suggest that give yourself time to socialize. Here is 5 steps to be a better communicator, so you can elevate every aspects of your life : #1 - Overcome Fear of Anti Socializing This first step is only for someone who is anti social type guy / girl. Believe me, I was a shy and anti social type guy. Back then, I always had this strange feeling when I met with other human being who isn't a member of m...

On this post, I will share about writing notes and what advantages you get by this action, also why I suggest to make it a habit in your life. Let's get into it then : #1 - Help Your Mind Focused I suggest you write every ideas which pop out on your mind. Whether it is only a silly idea like how to surprise your friend tonight or business plan idea or revolutionary idea. You will not miss any ideas and it would relieve your mind a lot of burden by writing it down, so you can switch your mind focused on tasks which important at hands. #2 - Help You Understanding Yourself Notes could be filled with anything, including your anger, disappointment, and other feelings. You can write : "Today I am angry to a guy with big lips". Or "Arrrgggh, I hate today, too much hassle .... too much rain... bla bla". Later when you reread the notes, maybe you will laugh and reflect what was happening. You could learn that you will get angry if meet ...

On busy life we have nowadays. We often are confronted by number of problems, which need to be addressed at limited time. We want to solve problems as soon as possible. Our brain will process all of tasks at hand simultaneously. We unconsciously enter the state of "multitasking". Human multitasking is an apparent human ability to perform more than one task, or activity, over a short period of time. An example of multitasking is taking phone calls while typing an email and reading a book. Source : en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_multitasking . After minutes or hours working on the tasks, we feel overwhelmed and our brain's energy has been burn out, but not even one task is well completed / feel like half baked finished. It happens to everyone. Multitasking has its own disadvantages, it will wastes a lot more time on finishing one task compare to singletasking / focused working due to human's brain context switching and it gets you make more errors due ...

Like this article, I get my main idea "stealing" from Austin Kleon's. But is it legal? Aren't you being unoriginal? Is that infringement law? Well, if it is "plagiarism", yes, that is illegal. But what is the difference with "stealing"? A bit blur here (to get a lot of insights about this topic, you can visit www.austinkleon.com and buy his book "Steal Like an Artist". It is an awesome book). Stealing doesn't mean copy+paste things, it is about process. How someone do their things and combine it with your own idea. That's it. If you still feel uneasy about it or feel guilty by stealing, how about we analyze for a bit world around us. Incredible invention human ever create, something which we cannot disconnect ourselves to. It helps our life tremendously. Change how world works. Cars (I bet you think about computer or smartphone, yes, that isn't wrong either). Do you see cars? How similar their designs and...