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To reach your full potential, it’s important that you invest in your self-education. Knowledge is power and having a knowledge advantage will take you far in life.
To help you do that, there is a Blinkist Black Friday deal for you: for a limited time, you can get 50% off Blinkist subscription.
Blinkist is an app that helps you get the key ideas from nonfiction books. It solves the problem of having to spend a lot of time to read a book. With ...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
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To reach your full potential, it’s important that you invest in your self-education. Knowledge is power and having a knowledge advantage will take you far in life.
To help you do that, there is a Blinkist Black Friday deal for you: for a limited time, you can get 50% off Blinkist subscription.
Blinkist is an app that helps you get the key ideas from nonfiction books. It solves the problem of having to spend a lot of time to read a book. With Blinkist, it takes you only 15 minutes to get all the i...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 29, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
How to Live a Balanced Life
What is your definition of success? Everyone might have different answers to this question, but I believe that true success comes from contributing to a cause that matters to you in a balanced way.
There are two parts here. First, you need to contribute to a cause that matters to you. Second, you need to do that in a balanced way. If you do these two things, you will have a fulfilling life.
The fact is, balance is essential to living a full life. If you take care of just a few aspects of your life and neglect the others, your life as a whole would suffer.
What should we do then? Well, here are five tips on how to live a ba...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Source Type: blogs
How to Be Motivated at Work: 5 Simple Tips
A while back, I read Personal Finance for Dummies. I found statements in the book that intrigued me:
“Many people toil away at work, dreaming about a future in which they can … do what they want, when they want. People often assume that this magical day will arrive when they retire…”
“Many of the people I speak to say that they do want to retire, and most say the sooner, the better.”
I don’t know whether these statements are true, but if they are, it means that many people hate their job. It means that many people do their job only because they have to, not because they want to. That’s a s...
Source: Life Optimizer - November 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Working Source Type: blogs
A Quick Guide to Living Your Own Life
Are you living your own life? Or are you living someone else’s life?
The questions above might seem simple, but they are important. After all, one of the most common lifetime regrets is “I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.”
Many people just follow the crowd, though. They just follow the “safe” path. You are unique, one-of-a-kind, but it’s not easy to live your own life.
So how can you live your own life? Here are some tips.
1. Know Yourself
First of all, you need to know yourself. You need to know your personal strengths and...
Source: Life Optimizer - October 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Source Type: blogs
The Danger of Creative Destruction
I’m currently reading Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. The book is about how nations throughout history reached prosperity or poverty. In essence, nations reach prosperity through innovations that bring them to new economic heights. The Industrial Revolution in the eighteenth century is a prime example.
Such innovations have a “negative” effect, though: they cause creative destruction. The new replaces the old. As a result, many people lose their jobs if they can’t keep up with the new. With the mechanization of textile production, for instance, those who did the work by hand eventually los...
Source: Life Optimizer - October 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Innovation Source Type: blogs
Two Things to Balance to Find Your Best Life
A while back, I wrote about how to find your best possible life. Now, I’d like to dig deeper into it by discussing two things that you need to balance along the way.
You see, finding your best life is a journey. It’s not something that just happens to you. In particular, there are two things you need to balance to find your best life: planning and randomness. You need both of them and you need to balance them.
You need planning because your resources are limited. You can’t just do everything you want. For that reason, you need to plan how you are going to use your limited resources.
On the other hand, you need random...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 28, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: What Are Your Favorite Biographies?
In my previous post, I wrote about building a passion for lifelong learning. Having a passion for lifelong learning is essential to help you reach your full potential. Now, I’d like to cover what I believe is a good way to learn about life: reading biographies.
Why is reading biographies useful? There are at least four reasons:
It can teach you about pitfalls to avoid (so that you don’t need to learn things the hard way).
It can teach you about how to respond to failure.
It can open your mind about what is possible.
It can teach you about great principles to live by.
Of course, there are many biographies to choose fr...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Building a Passion for Lifelong Learning
If there is one thing that can help you reach your full potential, it’s this: a passion for lifelong learning. This one thing can make the difference between reaching your full potential and just living an average life.
Unfortunately, many people equate education with formal education. They think they only need to learn while they are in academic institutions. As a result, they stop their education after they graduate. But the fact is, self-education is the best investment that you can make on yourself. Benjamin Franklin put it well: If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 13, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Today Is Life Optimizer ’s 13th Anniversary
On September 7, 2006, I published the first post at Life Optimizer. That was 13 years ago! At that time, I was taking my master’s degree overseas. Personal development had been a passion of mine and I decided to start a blog.
It was a (very) slow start. For months, I barely had anybody read my writings. But fortunately, it then got some traction. In 2009, I made enough from the blog to quit my day job. Fast forward to today, I still publish new posts roughly once a week.
You know what? After all these years, I’m still passionate about the mission: helping people reach their full potential. It still resonates with me. O...
Source: Life Optimizer - September 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
Factfulness Summary: How to Think Clearly About the World
I love to read books from different fields to get new perspectives. The most recent book that I have read is Factfulness by Hans Rosling.
The book teaches us how to think clearly about the world. It says that there are ten instincts that can pull us in the wrong direction and it teaches us how to recognize and control them.
When we see the world with those instincts, we have an overdramatic worldview. As a result, we tend to see the world worse than it really is. We should replace it with a fact-based worldview which the book calls factfulness.
So how can we have a fact-based worldview?
To help you have it, here are the te...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 30, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Thinking Source Type: blogs
A Quick Guide to Designing Your Life
Do you want to live your life the fullest? Then it’s important that you live by design, not by default. Living by design allows you to live your life. Living by default, on the other hand, will just lead you to live someone else’s life.
Unfortunately, it’s easy to live by default. It’s easy to just follow the crowd. It’s the path of least resistance. Unless you make a conscious effort not to, you will automatically go that way.
So how can we live by design? Here are some tips for designing your life.
1. Envision Your Ideal Life
To design your life, you should start with the end goal. What kind of life would make ...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Source Type: blogs
How to Optimize Your Day: Tactics From Chess
To reach your full potential, you should optimize your days. But how do you do that? Here I’d like to share with you tactics to do it that I learned from the world of chess.
Back in 2013, I wrote an article titled Optimizing Your Life One Move at a Time. There I wrote about what I learned from watching the World Chess Championship at that time. I noticed that the moves the players made were colored according to how optimal they were. Here is a screenshot:
As you can see, there are three possible categories for a move: optimal (blue), suboptimal (purple), and weak (red).
This, I believe, is a good metaphor for how we liv...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Time management Source Type: blogs
How to Be Your Best Self: Three Lessons From History
Do you want to be your best self? Do you want to become the best that you can be?
I just finished Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari. It’s an insightful book that contains many lessons from history. While the lessons are mostly related to nations and cultures, I believe we can apply some of them to our lives as individuals as well.
In particular, I’d like to take the lessons from how European empires came to dominate the world in the past 500 years.
Before the fifteenth century, Europe was backward in science and technology compared to Asian empires. But something happened that propelled them fo...
Source: Life Optimizer - August 2, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
Why You Should Develop Your Portfolio of Passions and How to Do It
Living your life to the fullest means reaching your full potential. But how do you reach your full potential?
A good way to reach your full potential, I believe, is building your portfolio of passions.
Everyone has something they are passionate about. They might not realize it because of the busyness of their day-to-day lives, but they have passions. Moreover, I believe that everyone has multiple passions. What you should do is developing your portfolio of passions.
Let’s look at the reasons why and how to do it.
Why You Should Develop Your Portfolio of Passions
Here are some reasons why you should develop your portfolio...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 18, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
