I come across the idea of personal outsourcing when I first read The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman. In one of the chapters titled How Companies Cope, Friedman wrote that nowadays companies should find their core competence and focus on that. Other things which are not their core competence should be outsourced to gain [...]

Top Time-Management Tricks
A collection of time management ideas from a number of people.
(tags: time)

Task Flow Mapping Your Day
A simple way to map out the flow of a day.
(tags: time)

There are times when ideas suddenly come to my mind. It doesn’t have to be in a certain time or occasion. I can be walking to the campus, lying in the bed, cooking, or whatever. The ideas just come. And many times, the ideas just come once. It means that if I forget the ideas [...]

What it takes to be great
Research now shows that the lack of natural talent is irrelevant to great success. The secret? Painful and demanding practice and hard work.
(tags: motivation attitude)

I have a case here: suppose I have two hours to spend. What should I do with that time ? Should I use that time to work or to take a rest ?
I often face this kind of situation in my current study. At Wednesday I have a class at 2 pm that would end [...]

These days are among the busiest days in my study. I will have an exam this Friday in which we are expected to read 15 papers before the exam and handwrite 10 pages of answer within two hours. Not only that, I also have a paper due at October 16 (already three days ago), presentation [...]