The key to success is making yourself as useful as possible to others. You should make yourself so useful that you are indispensable to them. But how do you do that? How do you make yourself indispensable?
First of all we need to define what is meant by useful, since only by being useful [...]

We are now living in the Knowledge Worker Age. It’s an age where the saying “knowledge is power” is truer than ever. Those who have knowledge rule, and those who want to rule (or even just survive) have no other choice but to have knowledge. So it’s necessary for all of us to work on becoming [...]

In this blog, I often write about the good books I find. Two examples are 106 Tips to Become a Master Connector (for Never Eat Alone), and 63 Life-Changing Quotes on Lifestyle Design (for The 4-Hour Work Week). I recently registered with Amazon Associates program, so you can support this blog by buying the books [...]

Sometimes situations do not go as expected. A good day may turn bad, everything may suddenly go wrong. Needless to say, it’s difficult to stay calm in such situations. We tend to become confused, panic or even heated by anger. That won’t help you much to get out of the situation though. Handling a bad situation in [...]

Have you ever had this kind of experience? You got up in the morning willing to have a productive day. You turned on the computer, and before you knew it, you already spent one hour browsing the Internet without even starting to do anything useful. Later that day, you browsed some sites necessary to get [...]

The art of arbitrage – I believe – is the key to living smart. It allows you to get much more given the same amount of effort. What you do there is connecting to different worlds and then leveraging the “price differences” between them to your advantage. It’s just like what the merchants do in [...]