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.