Of course, everyone could have his/her own definition. But, inspired by the book Never Eat Alone and a comment by Ronald Yip, this is the definition of successful people that comes to my mind: Successful people are those who help…
There are many best-seller books out there. By definition, best-seller books are books which are bought by many, many people. Unfortunately, buying doesn’t mean reading. From those many people who buy a book, only a fraction of them actually read…
Most people prefer to read new books than old books. At least best-seller lists in Amazon say so. However, it doesn’t mean that new books are better than old books. In fact, the opposite may be true: old books are…
I remember a story about Daniel Tammet I read several months ago. Daniel Tammet is a savant who is able to effortlessly recount pi to 22,514 digits (besides other abilities such as speaking more than ten languages). Here is his…
Believe it or not, ideas develop exponentially. The more ideas you have, the more ideas you will generate, both in term of quantity and quality. In human history, we have a phenomenon called technological acceleration. Do you know that the…
Finance is definitely an important part of our life. It’s impossible to be an effective person without being effective in our finance. One of the main issue in finance is determining whether to spend or not. This is an important…
Everyone wants to be productive. That’s why there are so many productivity systems and tools out there. But what is the key to productivity? Believe it or not, the key to productivity is amazingly simple: Actually do what you need…
Your inputs determine your outputs. If your input is bad, your output will be bad. If your input is good, your output will also be good. Therefore, never let anything bad come into your mind. Allow only the best resources…
The Top 50 Productivity Blogs (most of which you haven’t heard about)Leo from Zen Habits put together a list of top 50 productivity blogs. I’m glad to see that there are so many good resources on productivity. It’s a great honor…
Ideas are precious. Especially in this Internet age where many things quickly becomes commodity, ideas are what set you apart and keep you ahead of the pack. You need to always have good and fresh ideas. Unfortunately, we often cannot…