Design Your Self - Book Learnings -

There is a nice book by Karim Rashid, published on April 2006. Its aim is to help you rethink your whole life, love, and work. And here I am listing 20 general tips to apply in your life immediately & enhance your productivity.

1. Live like someone from another planet, observing and engaging in the human condition.
2. Artists sees the present, while others see the past. Be objective!
3. In designing yourself, be fearless to push the boundaries.
4. We are all born creative, but at some point this creativity stops. Be creative and indulge in it!
5. We grow up afraid to stand out and express our true selves.
6. Being casual, cross-cultural oriented, and open-minded to be unbiased and open to freely express your true self.
7. Eliminating formalities saves time and brings mobility.
8. Design your time using technology, and work on a global clock or internet time.
9. Entrepreneurship spirit should be spread from just working to much more.
10. Design instead of craft; design with a full plan and then execute, instead of crafting from the raw material directly.
11. There is no thing expands the mind, like traveling.
12. Keep your eyes and ears open, and you will learn more than you will in class.
13. Anything I can imagine, I can create.
14. Do what you believe, and you will end up where you belong.
15. Think about every aspect in your life, everything is important.
16. We shouldn't dwell in the past.
17. Create open spaces!!
18. THINK ABOUT NOW!!
19. Downsizing: eliminating anything in your life that is stressful, time consuming, detrimental, through:
1. Do they provide an important or reliable function in my place?
2. Do they have real meaning for me? Am I emotionally connected to them?
3. Do they add beauty to my life?
20. It is essential to learn to identify what is most important and beneficial to us & differentiate it from what we can live without.