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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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:
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…
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…
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.