Time to communicate broadly

I believe the era of silence is gone. Today, we have to speak up for our thoughts. People love those who explain their ideas with reasons and examples, not quietly but loudly in a way that the audience focus on their talks passionately and see them as role models. Today, everyone should benefit from social media and available tools such as blogs to publish his opinions and experience.

Researchers have changed their status from socially inactive mode to constantly growing active mode so that they can deliver what they've created as broadly as possible to people of any language, culture and background.  

Found a new fascinating computer game: Anki

You have no idea how much I'm happy today. I've started to play with Anki which is an excellent tool to memorize anything. Anki is based on a flash card system. Each card has two faces: front and back. On the front you give a word and on the back whatever about the word. You're not restricted to words. You can add images, sound and videos to the flash cards. The brilliant feature of Anki is that it displays your reviewed cards automatically again in the future. It depends on whether you decide the card was easy, good and hard, then that card will be displayed again in a few months, a few days and a few seconds respectively. 

I love this tool. It's been well engineered. What I'm going to do is to enter all the English and German words and sentences I've collected in the last year to Anki. 

The importance of surveys

The surveys that a company conducts in a society to achieve important stats on their products and services are very valuable resources for marketers to learn what the company's missions are and also what the society expects of the market. The art is to detect human needs and work smartly to meet them.   

Learning is enjoyable when ...

Learning is enjoyable when you learn that what you knew about something till today was wrong. You have to remove the poor definition of the thing from your mind and replace it with the accurate definition you just discovered. This replacement of images is enjoyable. 

Effective meetings

An effective meeting is a meeting that participants feel scared when the meeting ends. They leave the meeting room with clearly understanding the next goals and tasks. The more the new ideas risky and challenging are, the more the participants leave the room with preoccupied minds, the more creative solutions will pop up.

Go for an innovation

Seth Godin encourages us to go for a project that might not work. A project that scares you, a project that is risky. The fact that very few people step forward to touch the danger shouldn't make you afraid. There is an opportunity right after the danger. Many people would escape from frightening situations because they've chosen to do easier work. They prefer to copy others. What they've learned is to repeat the previous work again and again without any innovation. On the other hand, there are very few people who take the chance to make a difference. They feel a strong move inside their hearts. They're ready to go. They don't waste their time and energy by sitting back and getting nervous. They take action right now and reduce the pain of hard situations to the minimum possible. 

sucoFocus

People who are successful at their work and super active on the Web at the same time. They have one attribute in common: they focus on their work. Yes. If they produce media for entertainment, they tweet and post contents only on entertainment. They don't post anything about sport and politics. Charles Trippy and Shay Carl are excellent examples of such people. Ian Bremmer and Christiane Amanpour are great examples for politics.

These people seem to be obsessed with their profession even on weekends, national holidays and vacations. They remain loyal to their fans by posting every single day, even if they might be able for only a single post on a busy day.

Online legacy

How often do you think of the legacy you probably want to offer to the next generations? Do you have any legacy at all?

We live in a world where our thoughts, writings and speeches can be easily recorded by fast growing technologies. People search for the documents they need on the Internet. Documents, on any subject in any format, seem to be needed more often than before. Here a question arises: how interested are we to invest in creating online documents as legacy? I personally love people who died decades ago, but their works still push us forward.

definitions and differences

We learn the definitions carelessly until we have to find out the differences.

What's the difference between exhibition and fair? alone and lonely, traumatic and dramatic, sympathy and empathy, equal and identical ...

Amazing movie "I Am Alive"

I learned three lessons from the influential movie "I Am Alive":

1- Let the difficulties of hard situations touch your bones. Let them shake you. Don't react quickly.
2- You don't need to be professional in a field in order to take the first steps.
3- Hard situations make your character. Never give up. The outcome of persistence is courage. With courage you'll be able to follow your heart.

Who listens to you?

The more you work on yourself, the much more you should work on your connections with the people around you. The latter work is harder because humans grow at different pace.

Be the first and the last

This could be an approach to show your interest to get a room from the landlord when several applicants in addition to you are in a meeting with her:

Be the first person who arrives at the meeting. Be the last person who leaves the meeting.

By doing this, you have the opportunity to talk to her alone in two situations. Does this approach remove the images of applicants from her mind and paste only your image there?

What do you expect of a good education?

The best gift that a good education gives to a graduate is an organized mind to make smart decisions. Everything else, including science, engineering and art, is secondary.

Saying NO on the Internet is hard

It's very hard to say NO. Especially, when you work on the Internet. Many famous websites feature recommended items. Tempting recommended videos on Youtube call you loudly to click on them. It may happen that before you click the video you'd planned to watch, you passionately watch five videos from recommended videos and subscribed channels. On the Internet, the border between entertainment and profession is extremely narrow. A tutorial of a math class at Harvard may be next to a music video of Rihanna. The big challenge is to manage the number of YES we say to the feeds that are generated nonstop through Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. Sometimes, we need a page like the homepage of Google. Very simple, no smell of YES.

trust > diamond

regarding to value.

Ambiguity in this world?

People don't know what you have in your mind. You should write your thought down. Don't expect your people are smart enough and patient enough to listen to your abstract, ambiguous talk and text. Speak simple and concrete. Otherwise, people will leave you and go for less complex.

Passion and persistence both together matter

To achieve what you want you need BOTH passion and persistence. Missing one of those will move the success far away from you. Passion is prerequisite. Persistence is terminator. Passion is about fighting your personal challenges, persistence is about fighting interpersonal challenges.

Your own way

Asking question and getting help from others are truly signs of strength and courage, while causing people to approve the way you live is a sign of low confidence.

Opportunity

is created, it is not given.

Take risk for a small change

If you want to be more hopeful than yesterday, go for a small change in your solutions. Get help from excellent resources and your intelligence to make a small effective change.