Articles in category 'Learning'

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , April 29, 2009

Have you ever dreamed of getting all the topics of self improvement in one place and seeing how they relate to each other? Well, your dream might have just come true. The MasterMind Matrix Chart by Adam Sicinski covers practically all self improvement topics you can think of in one huge mind map.
Looking at the [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , March 31, 2009

I just finished reading the book Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. It’s a well-written and thought-provoking book on the topic of success. Among many interesting ideas in the book, there is one I’d like discuss here and that is the 10,000-Hour Rule.
The rule says that you need approximately 10,000 hours of practice [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , March 10, 2009

Improving my mind has always been one of my interests. That’s because I believe that the quality of the mind has significant influence on success. But of course, improving the mind can’t be separated from knowing how the brain works. You need to know how the brain works in order to use your mind effectively.
That’s [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , March 3, 2009

Nurturing your multiple passions is important to improve yourself. By nurturing your passions, you will be able to cross-pollinate different fields and come up with fresh ideas that put you ahead of the pack. The question is: what should we do to nurture our passions?
There are many ways to do that, but here I’d like [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , January 9, 2009

We are using computers more and more these days. We use it to type documents, play games, browse the Internet, chat with our friends, and more. While there are alternative ways to interact with the computer (such as using speech), the main way of interaction is still typing. So, since we need to type a [...]

By Donald Latumahina (follow me on Twitter) , December 29, 2008

Do you want to have creative ideas? The Medici Effect (a book I review a few months ago) has an important advice to follow: live in the Intersection. As the book says:
When you step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures, you can combine existing concepts into a large number of extraordinary new ideas.
There [...]