Is it comfortable for you to say “I don’t know”?

I learned one thing last week. It’s about saying “I don’t know”. It’s important because when we assume knowledge we often stop learning. There is a power in saying I don’t know.

Vertical thinking is selective, lateral thinking is generative. While rightness is what matters in vertical thinking, richness is what matters with lateral thinking.Vertical thinking resists irrelevant thinking while lateral thinking welcomes them.

I have just finished reading Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard. The book shared some pointers about personal development that I want to share with you. Those are the three tricks of self-leadership and the four stages of leadership development.

It’s up to you to join any personal development or motivational program, but will you also learn from life? That’s the least you have to take. Whether you want it or not, the life has taught you lessons. If you learn from it, you go to the next level, otherwise, you’ll stay in the same level, again and again.

Defensiveness, together with comparison and competitiveness, caused us to be blinded by the opportunity to see what the goods that others have. It makes us sad to see how others are better than us. But even worse, it’s hard for us to learn from them.

I have just finished reading the book “egonomics”. It shares about what makes ego our greatest asset (or most expensive liability).
I have bought this book many months ago. It was the result of impulse buying. It’s discounted yet still expensive, even worse when I checked out that the price was getting cheaper in other stores. [...]

There is no point for us to compare ourselves with others. We all have strengths and limitations. The right question is what we should do with them. And here I want to share how you can BOSS them, not the other way round. It involved 4 steps and let me share with you what they are.

They might be different.. they came from different world, they talk about seemingly different thing, yet they have something in common. And more than that, they complement each other.
No, I’m not talking about men and women, I talk about the 2 books that I recently read, Getting Things Done by David Allen and Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle…

More than identifying our strength, this book also helps you in busting the myths around strength and weaknesses, making the most of what strengthens you, cutting out what weakens you, speaking up to let our strengths shine, and building strong habits to put our strengths into practice.

Maybe the best productivity book so far, this book has inspired me to build a system to get things done. When it comes down to principle, these are the two cores that David emphasized…