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…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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:
Investing in Yourself: Your Key to a Better Future
Do you want to have a better future? One thing you should do for that is investing. That means making some sacrifice now (e.g. setting aside a portion of your income) for a greater reward in the future (e.g. your…