December 22, 2008

The Last Lecture

It's been a while since my last review, and this time I'm gonna review a really really good book that I'm pretty sure you'll gonna cry a lot and proud to have known the greatest lecture you'll ever known. This book was based on the lecture that was given by Randy Pausch, professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, that have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and only have a little more time left. This book will focused about how he can achieved all of his childhood that you can achieve it too. It's also gave many information about how to socialize. And the greatest motivation that I ever learned is that don't ever waste your time on whining about your condition, because this life is really short and you must be able to manage and achieve all of your goals and dreams in that short time. Like Randy Pausch, even if he was already diagnose that he only got a few months left to live, he still think to give peoples his knowledge and also leave a legacy for his family. Well, I was really motivated by his words about keep moving on. But, finally, Randy Pausch succumbed to his battle with cancer. And I really hope that everyone of us should be inspired by his words and motivated to keep moving on.

December 9, 2008

Rich Kid Smart Kid

Right now, I'm going to review another book from Robert T. Kiyosaki, the author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, Rich Kid Smart Kid. This book is really good and useful for the parents to give their child a financial head start. This book will tell you not only how to give your child financial education, it also tell you that in this world there are many kind of genius. But the school system only accept and approve one kind of genius. That's why you should start involve in educating your child not only just give them to the school system. Because many child have a different kind of genius that are different than the one that school accept. That's why the teacher will said, "Your son have a great potential, but unfortunately he didn't maximize it," or will say to your child, "You're a troublemaker, you're not gonna success." If you heard something like that, you shouldn't angry and mad to your child but, you should give them encouragement by explaining that everybody was born genius. Also, this book will tell you that the real study is start when your son is graduated from school. That the real life report is Financial Report, the thing that your banker would ask if you're borrowing money. And this book tell you too how to teach your child, even your child is very young, about the quadrant and the importance of making your money work for you. And I'm sure after you're applying this book to educate your child, you'll be happy to see them growing up and have a great future in their life.

December 3, 2008

Rich Dad Poor Dad


Rich Dad Poor Dad, maybe you'll be familiar with that title. Because, the book that was written by Robert T. Kiyosaki became the number one New York Times international-bestseller for over than one year! And yes, this book really deserve it because you'll learn the importance of Financial Freedom, a condition that your passive income is higher than your expense and don't need your body to work to get money. And if you've achieve Financial Freedom you don't have to worry anymore about the global financial crisis that we face today. And one thing that this book mention that you must change your mindset from the mindset of industrial age to the information age. But, you must learn it by yourself, because school still teach their students to always get a great, perfect score and get a secured job. But that is the mindset of the industrial age. This world has change. Like you see right now, even if you've got a secured good job, many people lost their job. And Robert T. Kiyosaki said that you must start think about investing and building passive income rather than buying a bigger house with small down payment so you will get reduced tax. The last thing that I must tell you, this book always tell the importance of making the money to work for you, not you work for the money. And at this time, you really gonna need this book as your guide to make you have a happy prosper life.

November 26, 2008

Think And Grow Rich

I'm sure you must been anxious for what is the meaning of the title that's very interesting right? And you're not wrong if you're interested to read it, because this one of the greatest bestseller in the world that have been sold for over 15 million copies worldwide even this book was published in 1937. And also this was the greatest masterpiece that ever be created by Napoleon Hill, the author. This book will tell you the thirteen steps that you must use to gain rich. Starting from planning what you'll got in the next 5 or 10 years, and then the auto-suggestion that you should use in order to "waking up" your unconscious mind that is really important to make you always try to reach what you're planning, and also the most important thing, how to keep believing that your plan is gonna work sooner or late. This book will guide you step by step how to change your mindset to be a rich man. And also will covered the importance of imagination that is required in your journey to success. And this book has also became the influence and the father of all bestseller in the world. So, I highly suggest you to read it whenever you have a chance to read it.

November 25, 2008

Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant

Hello, today I'm gonna review the sequel of the phenomenal New York Times Bestseller "Rich Dad Poor Dad". On the sequel, Robert T. Kiyosaki talk mainly about the four quadrant: Employee, Self-Employee (Small Business), Business, and Investor. In this book he'll tell you what is the advantage and disadvantage of each quadrant. And one thing that mentioned in the book frequently are the importance of moving from the left quadrant (E and S) to the right quadrant (B and I). Also, he'll tell you what you can get from becoming right quadrant like, no more disappearing money you get because of taxes that you'll get if you're an employee. But, Robert T. Kiyosaki also said that for an employee who want to migrate to the right quadrant they should keep their job because working in B or I quadrant will be hard to start with. And also in this book he give you clear example of diagram of income and outcome that was really easy to learn. And last thing that he always mentioned that if you want to reach financial freedom, you're gonna need to do it, because you'll get nothing if you just wait for miracle to happen. Like one of famous quote that said, "If you want a miracle, be that miracle." And also I recommend you to read the Rich Dad, Poor Dad first, because that's the basic all of Robert T. Kiyosaki's books.

November 24, 2008

Larry King, How to Talk to Anyone, Anytime, Anywhere: The Secrets of Good Communication

Hello, now I'm gonna to review a really good book if you want to know how to be good orator, or to easily make friends. It was written by the famous Larry King who has a show in the CNN, Larry King Live. This book will tell you the art of talking and show you how to be good speaker anywhere and to anyone. And the important thing that this book mentioned that, first of all, you must know the people that you're talking to. You must know their background so you can arrange what you need to put in your speech. Example, you may add humor to your speech but, you must know what kind of humor you should put into. Don't use college humor to a group of scientist. Instead you can use a humor that will make you audiences interested. And also, you can also use this book not only for speech but also for daily conversation with your friends, family, or anyone that you're talking to. That's only a few thing from many many great things that this book tell about the art of speaking. And I'm sure you're gonna need this book. Because, you talk everyday right? You cannot socialize without speaking.

November 23, 2008

Sam Kok, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms

Today, I'm gonna review one of ancient literature from China, Romance Of The Three Kingdoms. If you ever played Dynasty Warriors or Romance of The Three Kingdoms from Koei you may found this book really interesting. This book is based on Three Kingdoms Era after the fall of Han Dynasty in the 3rd century. And book that was written by Luo Guanzhong in the 14th century. It's really interesting because of the languange structure that was so beatiful, and also the morales content in it. In this 4 books part, you'll be taken back to the ancient Chinese age that was full with morale lesson. You'll find many great lessons just from one character, in this book the characters are about a thousand, like a great loyalty that was shown by Cu-Kat Liang (Zhuge Liang) the prime minister of the Kingdom Of Shu. A very cunning and wise man of that era that really show loyalty and respect to his majesty until his very untimely death at the battlefield. And even if you're just start to read, this book is a really good start. It'll make you became in love in reading and you'll just want to read it again and again. And I again, I warn you you'll be enchanted by the beatifully organized words that Luo Guanzhong arranged.

November 20, 2008

How To Stop Worrying And Start Living


This time, I want to review one of the greatest book I ever read in my whole life. And I really suggest to read it whenever you're in a bad mood or having a bad luck. But I really suggest to read it everytime you have time because this book can be so inspiring. This book are wrote in the 1940s but still use by many people all around the globe until this day. You can get many things from this book like, the secret of one hour sleep that was use by many of famous people who had a long and happy life. Like John D. Rockefeller, he said that he always spare some time to sleep in his office in the afternoon for one hour and nobody can interrupt his sleep even the President of The United States! This way he can gain his golden age without any big problem about his health condition. I really recommended you to read this book and you can feel very much knowledge and inspirational words for life from this book. And why don't you start to spare some of your time to sleep in the afternoon for having a very nice retirement time.