Which one is better, being a specialist or generalist? Well, maybe not any of them. Instead, the better choice is being a versatilist. There is a good note about it in a Gartner study quoted in The World is Flat…
“Five years from now, you’re the same person except for the people you’ve met and the books you’ve read.” John Wooden, former UCLA basketball coach I really like this quote. It reminds me that to grow we need to: Meet…
I’m thinking about this question lately: what is the most important skill we need to have? What kind of skill do we need most in this kind of world? To answer it, I guess we need to see what the…
am always amazed by how many learning resources we now have on the Internet. I remember in the past, before the Internet was popular, how difficult it was to learn about anything. I must go to the bookstore and hope…
To continously optimize yourself, there is no other way but by being a lifelong learner. Fortunately, there are so many learning resources available for free on the Internet. Eliteskills.com puts a list of those free resources in Massive Resource List…
Some days ago, I came across an interesting site about Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman. The idea is, instead of spending a lot of time and (especially) money for a real MBA program, you can get roughly the same knowledge…
I love audio learning, so I subscribe to some podcasts using iTunes. Usually, I will copy those podcasts to my music player so that I can listen to them while going around and working on something else. But recently I…
Maven is the term used by Malcolm Gladwell in his best-seller book The Tipping Point. This is one of three types of people who can trigger “social epidemics” (the other types are connector and salesman). In short, maven is the…
Audio learning is a very good way to optimize your day. One obvious reason is because nowadays knowledge and information grows very rapidly beyond our ability to cope with it. The only way to handle it is by increasing our…
There is a very interesting article in the August 2006 issue of Scientific American titled The Expert Mind. The article explains about recent researches in cognitive science which tries to understand how experts think and how people can get such…
