If any of you out there think that once you become successful, you can stop learning, let me put that misconception to rest immediately. To get to the top and stay there, we must constantly improve ourselves.
If we rest on our laurels or assume that we know enough, we will quickly realize that this is not the case. Thus, I've compiled 10 easy ways to make yourself smarter and stay on the cutting edge. Follow these tips and you'll never feel duller than a spoon.
the top ten list
10. Review all options
This is one of the best ways to remain sharp. Each day you will be faced with many decisions that require thought if you are to make the best choice.
There are often many solutions to a problem, but there is usually only one that is best. To get to this solution, you will need to list all the possible options and explore them in depth.
You must be able to incorporate complex "if this, then that" types of reasoning into your decision-making process to account for all possibilities. Once you train yourself to do this, you'll find that your decisions will be of better quality. Remember: sloppy thinking leads to sloppy results.
Reading is perhaps one of the easiest ways to keep your brain on its toes. Read daily newspapers and web sites to stay up-to-date on current events. Read a business magazine during your lunch hour to learn more about general business trends. Finally, you can relax at night with a good book or general interest magazine. It never hurts to know more of what is going on in the world.
8. Hang around winners
Stimulating conversation doesn't need to involve debates or formal talks. Any social gathering will do as well as a phone call or even an online chat. Associate with smart people and you will become smarter, and gain knowledge and insight from them. So don't be afraid to throw in your two cents.
7. Get a hobby
Hobbies are not only relaxing, they can stimulate the mind in different ways. Hobbies often force the mind to build new mental patterns in order to accomplish certain tasks. Think of it as light exercise for the brain. Learn to dance or play a musical instrument -- anything to get the other areas of your brain working.
6. Keep a personal diary
It has happened to all of us at some point in life -- we connect an event from our past to something in the present and exclaim, "Now I get it, boy was I dumb." Ensure that you're learning from experiences by writing them down in a daily (or weekly) journal. It is fascinating to look back on your thinking process. In doing so, you can often make connections that you had missed the first time around.
5. Memorize
I remember having to memorize poems and quotes all through grade school. At the time, I didn't see the use of committing these things to memory. After all, what did the ant and the cockroach have to do with real life? The point was to give the mind a good workout.
Start by memorizing the names and occupations of people you meet. You can then move on to phone numbers and even baseball statistics, if you like. This way, if you lose your Palm Pilot, you can still contact your associates and bet with them about who won the American League Batting Title in 2000 (Nomar Garciaparra with a batting average of .372).
4. Try new things
The brain can easily fall into a rut. If you do the same things day in and day out, you will lull your brain into a deep sleep. This is why many production line workers of the early automobile industry went stir crazy -- they would beat their brains into boredom.
Take a different route to work sometimes, eat at a different restaurant and walk down an unknown street. They don't have to be big things, but try to vary your routine a little to keep things fresh and allow your brain to make new neural connections.
3. Job hop
Humans usually learn best in bits and pieces. The best approach for solving large problems is to break them down into a series of smaller problems. A job works in the same manner. If you are doing the same work for 20 years, your brain will shift to cruise control.
Take a risk and try your hand at something new. You don't necessarily have to leave your current job, but don't be afraid to venture into the unknown at work. Take initiative and revamp your distribution channel.
2. Travel We have become so accustomed to our own environment that we assume that this is the way life for everyone. Well, I've got news for you -- that's not the case. Sure, just about every country in the world is capitalistic, but the similarities often end there. Just think of the different mentality of someone living on the East Coast versus West Coast.
Now take a little trip to Italy or Spain and you'll quickly realize that you are in a completely different world with tons of fresh things to learn and enjoy. And all this keeps your mind working in different ways.
1. Don't be afraid to fail Sometimes we don't realize our strengths until we've experienced failure doing something we are terrible at. Don't be afraid to try something you know you're not good at, even if only to reinforce how you feel about the things you are good at. Being the Jack of all trades is a little harder than it sounds, but well worth the effort.
Remember, a mind is a terrible thing to waste. So go out and try news things, think them through, master them, and have fun in the process. If you follow these guidelines, you'll always be on the edge, exactly where you should be, waiting to pounce.
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Writing Learning To Become Smart and Creative Generation
"I want to be a famous writer who have works great."
"The writing is easy, isn’t?"
We often hear expressions such as this around us. Various expressions can only write here, but what and how the actual writing?
Simply, writing is an activity to create a record or information on the media by using a script.Writing also can be defined as activities to create the paper. Paper that can be referred to in the form of a scientific paper, papers, books, articles, opinions, literature (including poetry and prose). Media can be written a wide range such as books, magazines, news papers, internet (web, blog), etc.
Then we know who called the author. Or the author is a writer for the people who grind or creating a paper.
Writing activities developed rapidly since creation printing technique that causes the write-ahead because the paper published them easily.
After knowing what it is called writing, we also know that writing is very closely related to reading. Reading is a way to get information from something that is written. From this understanding, can be drawn that there is a knot or sustainability behind the reciprocal relationship between reading and writing, reading and writing.
If our bodies like "writing factory", then the input are reading and the output (or product that created) is paper. The paper will be read and may be also inspiring to write. So on. Thus, the reading for an author or those who want to be author is very important. Why? Because reading can enrich and coloring our writing.
All people can write. All people can be authors. However, when we may want to write, a question appears in our mind, "how to write well?" Then, we will ask busy looking for tips and tricks-writing.
Basically, an author must have three basic skills, namely:
Speaking skills in the form of recording oral to written. Included in the spelling, punctuation, and word selection.
Presentation skills. Included in the development of paragraphs, breaks down into sub main criticism criticism basic layout and systematically.
Layout skills. Included in the preparation of the format such as typography, type, letter, paper, tables, and so forth.
However, this time let's forget the terms first.
A friend of my hobby of looking up at the mountain, never said, "the best training to be a Climber, just climb." So, with the same formula, a secret to be a best author is just write!
Just write all the things that we want to write! Write what we want to read that many people! Write what we know! Just after that we learn tips-tricks for the development of the paper.
Perhaps in addition to questions about the secret writing, there are other questions such as, "Why do we find the idea difficult to any posts? What is difficult to write productive? How do I make any posts that impressive? "
One writer called Maman S. Mahayana never say, "Be diligent to write! Slowly, your brain will write a system. "Therefore, we must train our brain to become oriented to write in it and form a" writing system ". How:
Make the writing as a life choice! Not only hobby that is done only when you want to or have time remaining. Make writing style as you live! That if you really want to become writers, and total reliability.
Be diligent to write! Write what you can write! Today wake up late, just write in your diary! Bored see bad act of artists and politicians, just write your opinion! You want someone dispute the statement, but does not dare, write it! With more often to write, we will be usual to show your ideas. Be diligent to read some quality books! Because the books which you read can enrich and coloring your writing. For example, if you diligently read the novel, the author likely to be novel easy for you or if you like reading the opinion columns in newspapers, then you will be a good opinion writers.
So what actually benefit from the writing? Benefits of writing can be grouped into 2 parts, namely the benefits of intrapersonal and interpersonal benefits.
Benefits intrapersonal
Intrapersonal benefits are benefits that I can for himself, among others
Satisfaction heart
Writing may feel satisfied and happy because you can pour ideas in mind in writing that can be enjoyed by themselves and others.
Practice critical thinking and creative
In writing, an author has claimed wide broad perspective and be able to think critically and creatively to produce work of an interesting and innovative.
Has a healthy pattern of living and regular
Of writing, someone will have a pattern of healthy living and regular habit because it will set the paradigm that is also wise in making a living.
Besides the benefits for themselves, the author also can benefit financially from writing if he makes it as serious work.
Benefits of interpersonal
Achieve community
In addition to achieve themselves as writers, writing can also be used as a means to achieve the community participated in the paper through the inspiring and applied.
Building an effective social communication
In the era of technology, such as drunk now, with the use of the correct and wise, writing activities through media and web blog is to build effective public communication between people or between people with various issues concerning the government's social and political center of the current.
Develop a policy think
Writing can develop a climate conducive to openness in thinking between people with each other through writings, so that supports the development of innovation in many fields.
After discussing extensively on what and how to actually write that, back on the theme of this paper, namely "Creating the Next Generation with Smart and Creative Writing." The word generation here refers to the young people or teenagers as the subject of the main problems to be
Divine enthusiasm of youth Indonesia writing, the fact that not too bad. Seen from the many young writers who works with them fresh. Try to visit only a book store and count the number of how many books, especially teenlit novel, written by those who are aged under 21 years old. There are tens and even hundreds of books. This shows that the interest is high enough to write from the teenagers. The good news again is also the number of publishers providing easy opportunities for young writers to publish his work, even with the training with the regular writing. As is done by working with the publisher Mizan and Annida magazine to provide training for young people. Of this very young writers to help us in developing his work.
It is an indication enough this generation has been the creation of intelligent and creative with the writing? Yet. Still required a lot of attention from other parties to grow-up interest and talent of the young Indonesian writers. For that there are some things you can do.
We start from the government. Government in its capacity as the policy can take some important steps, including:
Protect the works of creation and the author of various crime-related with writing such as piracy and plagiarism paper with the law clear.
Facilitate the development Indonesian writers for example, hold or support the writing event that can provide opportunities for young writers of Indonesia to develop and introduce his work.
Apart from the government, the attention of other parties such as senior author, writing organizations, libraries, schools, and parents are also expected. Form of attention that can be given, for example:
Senior author can transmit knowledge and enthusiasm to the young writers through seminars and writings.
Writing organizations can contribute in a way to guide and lead author for young to create a quality paper and help their relationship with publishers.
Libraries, both school libraries and general libraries as a supplementary reading public interest, can provide a major contribution. One of them, with the race of scientific papers and race and other activities that stimulate interest in reading and writing ability of the younger generation.Serve variatif books and quality facilities and a library representative, such as a quiet atmosphere and comfortable , hotspots in the area and library computers and multimedia devices in the library to access the Internet is also an important step that needs to be done in order to increase the library interest in reading and writing and the ability to compensate for the youth rate the development of science and technology.
Schools as institutions of formal education must be first place for teenagers to gain knowledge about the ability to write and write, for example, through learning the subjects of English variatif fun and also the existence of extra-curricular school Mading and magazine / journalism.
Parents need to provide support for positive activities that children write. Both moral and material so that the child's ability to write well can attent since early.
After all the tricks and the attention given, then there is no reason not to create the next generation of smart and creative writing.
Whether the meaning actually create the next generation of smart and creative with the writing itself?
Keep in mind that writing is an activity that involves work right and left brain simultaneously. Both of the brain work together hand, the function logic, language, emotion, and creativity at the same time.
A person charged in the smart and creative writing because someone is bound want to produce a paper of interest and preferred reader. The readers of course want the actual paper and innovative. Suppose a teenager who became a freelance news writers at a newspaper, he wanted to write about the news of high school students this year. He must present the actual news and different to be able to edit and subsequently received a reader's attention. Therefore, it should be "more intelligent" readers of news. He had the news that the material he wanted to write. He must have the information and data accurately. For that, he will need to make observations, interviews, and research. He was also charged in the creative writing news in order not to lose a reader's attention from other news similar in other newspapers. And he must be able to give something "different" on the news. For example, with the title of the fishing knowledge readers or the delivery of news content and images are communicative or continuous data that reinforce the content of news. This is where the author claimed to be intelligent and creative. Of course this does not apply only to the news, but almost all who want to work received by both readers.
The most of the paper is certainly through the long process of writers to become intelligent and creative. For example novel Laskar Pelangi the spectacular story of the life of the author, Andrea Hirata. Not only was the story of his life journey that the author clearly strike a creative and intelligent a novel implicit in the content, but also from the process of writing the novel. Recognized by Andrea Hirata own that previously he had never written a novel and for that he must learn to write again and remember all the memories in the small Belitong, doing a little observation to return to villages and homes and try to write in a language that can be enjoyed by readers. Indeed a long process.
We, young people, can begin the steps to be in demand, such as author Andrea Hirata's the small things, writing a diary. Do not consider this as the first ancient customs and taste their own boring before absorption and benefits!
Teenagers often have a problem in their lives. Either start from most of the problems that tune, that is love, until the problem is a little complex economic issues such as family, quarreling parents, the association at the school, psychological disturbance itself, and so forth. Problems such as this can be an atom bomb for the young people themselves if not managed well by it. Believe it or not, write down the problems that currently faces in a diary can help overcome the problem itself. By writing the problem, it will reflect and evaluate the problems that faces the middle. Then it will analyze the clear thinking and to complete the problem. He also can formulate problem-solving solutions that now faces the study of problems that are recorded daily in the book. Thought that a systematic and critical and will help the young people themselves. Then, if you want to be developed, writing in the book's daily can be processed into a novel full of the values of life and learning, or motivation of inspiring books.
Writing is learning. Excavate the ability to learn with, learn to think critically and systematically, learn the ideas, learn to hear, see, and feel the environment, and learn to build ideas and submitted them to other people through writing. Learning to be smart and creative generation.
Many things that we can give and can write from. Never afraid to start writing even if it will feel heavy in the beginning! Writing is fun. I same with when we have a world free of mold itself to all our ideas and expression.
Come and be a smart and creative generation with writing!
