Have you ever thought why there are very few great people? I think there is probably only one great person out of 10,000 at best, and most probably much less than that. But why? Most people want to be great,…
In this fast-changing world, it is important to be versatilists. Unfortunately, it is far too easy to get off the versatilist track. So I guess we need some sort of checklist to help us on track. I find something interesting…
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…
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…
Everybody wants to have an optimized life. In fact, there are hundreds of books, seminars, and trainings devoted to this topic. Nevertheless, there is actually one simple thing you can do to optimize your life: do what you love. Sounds…
There is an interesting article written by Joel Spolsky titled Human Task Switches Considered Harmful. It compares which way of working is better: sequential processing or multitasking. Suppose we have two tasks at hand: A and B. Sequential processing means…
Some time ago I read an article titled Burned Out in Scientific American Mind June/July 2006 edition. The article explained about how people can be so obsessed with their work until they collapse by exhaustion. These people measure their self-worth…
