Optimizing Life: How to Maximize Your Upside While Minimizing Your Downside
I recently finished reading Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio. It’s an insightful book that teaches me a lot of useful lessons.
Here I’d like to share one of the lessons with you. It’s a principle on how to maximize your upside while minimizing your downside. Interesting, isn’t it?
The principle came from the world of investing. One day, Ray Dalio – who led a successful hedge fund – got an insight that led to a breakthrough in investing. This is how he put it:
That simple chart struck me with the same force I imagine Einstein must have felt when he discovered E = mc2: I saw that with fifteen to twe...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Finance Relationships Source Type: blogs
Purpose Mastery Is Open: Make the Most of the 2nd Half of 2019
We are now in early July. That means we have now entered the second half of this year. If you want to make this year your best year ever, you still have six months to do so.
Related to that, I’m glad to announce that Purpose Mastery is now open for enrollment! Purpose Mastery is my online course on how to find and live out your purpose in life. The course will help you live your life, not someone else’s life. It will help you live a fulfilling life.
If you want to have a strong sense of purpose for the rest of the year, this course is for you. It’s open for one week and I plan to open it just twice a year.
Click here...
Source: Life Optimizer - July 3, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
A Quick Guide to Making the Most of Your Talents
Optimizing your life means reaching your full potential. A key part of that, I believe, is making the most of your talents.
The fact is, everyone has talents that they can use to contribute to the world. You have talents that you can use to make a difference in people’s lives. The question is: have you made the most of your talents?
I still have a lot to learn, but here are some tips on how to make the most of your talents.
1. Identify Your Top Intelligences
First of all, you need to know your talents. A simple way to do that is identifying your multiple intelligences. Take a self-assessment test like this one to find ou...
Source: Life Optimizer - June 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Working Source Type: blogs
How the Right Mindset Can Help You Grow
Your mindset plays an important role in your life. Why? Because your mindset determines how you make decisions. The right mindset leads you to make the right decisions while the wrong mindset leads you to make the wrong ones. They lead you to different kinds of life with a wider gap over time.
To reach your full potential, an essential mindset to adopt is a growth mindset as opposed to a fixed mindset. The growth mindset believes that you can develop your abilities. You can learn and get better at what you do. The fixed mindset, on the other hand, believes that your abilities are fixed. You are either good at something or ...
Source: Life Optimizer - June 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: What Are Your Favorite Books for Personal Development?
A good way to grow as a person, I believe, is reading books. Reading a good book is like listening to someone’s life advice. You might not be able to meet the author in person, but by reading his/her book, you can get invaluable advice for your life.
So I’d like to ask you:
What are your favorite books for personal development and why?
The books don’t have to be self-help books; they could be biographies, history, etc. The important thing is that the books help you grow as a person.
Please leave your answer in the comments so that everyone can read it. Thanks! (Source: Life Optimizer)
Source: Life Optimizer - June 6, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Source Type: blogs
Getting Unstuck by Having a Side Project
I have always been a proponent of having side projects. Recently, I found something that strengthens my belief in it. It’s an article by Mailchimp’s co-founder Ben Chestnut. Here is the quote that I’m interested in:
We started Mailchimp as a side project for our web design business after we were both laid off from our corporate jobs.
Mailchimp is a company that I have known for a long time. It’s a large company now with $600 million in revenue. Ben Chestnut, the co-founder, is a billionaire. But I just realized that it started as a side project!
The founders’ main business at that time was web design. The...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 31, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Working Source Type: blogs
Investing in Yourself: Your Key to a Better Future
This article has more information on how to do it.
2. Health
The key things for your physical health are exercise, rest, and diet. So build the exercise habit, sleep well, and eat healthily.
3. Learning
When it comes to learning, curiosity is the fuel. The more curious you are, the further you will go. So develop curiosity in your life and the habit of learning will happen naturally.
4. Social
For your social aspect, the most important part, of course, is your family. Make sure that you spend enough quality time with them. Eat together whenever possible.
But you should also invest in your social connections. Join a communi...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 16, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
Live Your Best Life: Becoming the Superhero Version of Yourself
In How to Find Your Best Possible Life, I wrote that you need to think out of the box to find your best possible life. You need to think about possible alternatives to your current life. If you don’t, you could be optimizing the wrong version of your life.
Here I’d like to dig deeper into how to think out of the box. That is, how do you think out of the box to live your best life?
I believe that a good way to do that is this: think about becoming the superhero version of yourself! This is something that I first learned from Level Up Your Life.
You see, when you watch superhero movies, there are usually two versions of ...
Source: Life Optimizer - May 10, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Source Type: blogs
How to Find Your Best Possible Life
Do you want to live your best possible life? If so, then there is a danger related to it that you need to be aware of. To explain it, I’d like to use a concept in mathematics called local maxima.
In mathematics, you often try to find the maximum value of a function. One example is finding the maximum revenue that you can get by adjusting the price of a product.
In a three dimensional space, finding the maximum value is similar to finding your way to the peak of a hill. In fact, the name of a technique for solving this problem is ‘hill climbing’. The technique helps you get to the peak of the hill you are currently at...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 26, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Purpose Source Type: blogs
Are You Willing to Step Out of Your Comfort Zone?
I read the book summary of Hit Refresh recently. It’s an autobiography of Satya Nadella, the third CEO of Microsoft. It tells the story of how the young Nadella was obsessed with cricket and wanted to become a professional player. On the side, he also developed an interest in personal computing.
He enrolled in an institute in India and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering. Realizing that being a professional cricket player was not for him, he then decided to follow his interest in personal computing.
He was at a crossroad at that time: should he stay in his comfort zone or step out of it?
For h...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 11, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Attitude Source Type: blogs
How to Negotiate Effectively: 11 Proven Tips
Like it or not, you need to negotiate in life. You might need to negotiate your salary, the selling of your property, or the buying of an item. In any case, knowing how to negotiate is useful.
Here I’d like to share with you the lessons I learned from Getting to Yes. These tips can help you become a better negotiator. Here are 11 tips to improve your negotiation skills.
1. Focus on interest, not positions.
When negotiating, we are often too focused on the positions instead of the interests behind them. The positions are what you ask from the other party while the interests are why you want them.
For example, you might as...
Source: Life Optimizer - April 4, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Working Source Type: blogs
Ask the Readers: What Are Your Essential Productivity Tools?
There is no doubt that using the right tools can make you more productive. The right tools can help you do the right things faster. It can save you both time and energy.
In my case, I change my productivity tools only occasionally; I often stick with a tool that works for me for years. But it’s useful to know what other people are using. It can help us find new tools that can boost our productivity.
So here is my question to you:
What are your essential productivity tools and why?
Please share your answer in the comments so that everyone can read it. Thanks!
P.S. If you haven’t done so, you can still fill out the...
Source: Life Optimizer - March 23, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Tools Source Type: blogs
Why You Need Solitude and How to Have It
To live a full life, you need something that’s rarely mentioned: you need solitude. Here is a definition of solitude from the book Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport.
Time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.
When you look at great people in history, you can see that they have this characteristic in their lives. It takes different forms, but they have time alone with their own thoughts. For Albert Einstein, it was playing music. For Theodore Roosevelt, it was journaling. For Steve Jobs, it was taking long walks.
Let’s see why you need solitude and how to have it.
Why You Need Solitude
There...
Source: Life Optimizer - March 15, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Thinking Source Type: blogs
Help Me Meet Your Needs [A Short Survey]
My mission at Life Optimizer is helping you reach your full potential. To be able to do that, I need to know your needs. That’s why I have created this short survey.
If you could take just a few minutes to fill it out, I’d really appreciate it. It will help me meet your needs.
Click here to take the survey
I’m looking forward to reading your response. Thanks in advance and have a great day! (Source: Life Optimizer)
Source: Life Optimizer - March 7, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: General Source Type: blogs
How to Stay Relevant: 3 Tips From the Gaming World
I like video games. That doesn’t mean that I play them, however (many games take too much time these days). But I do keep myself updated with the world of gaming.
From watching the trends, I notice two things:
Many popular games come and go. Remember Pokemon Go? It was all the rage back in 2016. But nowadays, I barely hear of it anymore. That’s the fact with many popular games: they come and go.
Some games are ‘evergreen.’ On the other hand, there are some games that are still popular years after their initial release. A good example is the Civilization series (or Civ, for short). It was first released in 1991, bu...
Source: Life Optimizer - March 1, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Donald Latumahina Tags: Learning Working Source Type: blogs
