The Art of Experimenting Things

"Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under the observation in life"

Marcus Aurelius

Why experimenting? Because this is by far the best way to learn something.

Experimenting has been and is still my most preferred activity.

I have experimented things in the following areas:

• Computer Programming Languages and Databases
• Telecommunications and Internet Protocols
• Business Management Techniques
• E-Learning Methods
• Self-Improvement theories
• Self-concept and self-esteem psychology
• Human Relationships Study
• Digital Electronics
• Financial Derivatives on Line Trading
• Web Marketing
• Eastern Philosophies

I find the best way to improve our education is combining formal education with live experience, but this works only for those matters we are interested about.

If you are not concerned about the topic you will have problems to keep new information, you need to be active in the learning process.

A Self-learner need to talk about his or her ideas to somebody else, a self-learner usually prefers to solve problems rather than follow instructions to be carried out.

A Self-learner need to gain experience from seeing what happens in his or her experiments.

When I was in primary school, I was forced (like anybody) to know poetry by heart, I hated to do that! I have never considered this as a creative task!

Also, I always disagree whit those who believe the more one is able to memorize the more he or she is intelligent!

We have invented computers just to do that! (I mean merely to store information).

We are not stupid! I think that the more you can solve problems knowing where to find information when needed, the more you best use your brainpower!

Unluckily this idea is uncommon in my country formal education.

This is a one of the reasons why I was forced to become autodidactic, that is a self-learner!

Do Not Follow The Crowd

"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowds."

Edward de Bono

It is important to point out that our need to conform is strongly rooted in ourselves since our origin.

Luckily in the history of humankind there always had been some individuals like Albert Einstein, Galileo Galilei, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and many others who did not think as the crowd.

Many of us believe that those special individuals were genius, not ordinary people, and that is true.

I would not to say that everyone should become necessarily a genius, but it is important, on my opinion, to study the biography of these great minds.

I mean that we can look at the way those extraordinary people thought and acted, then we can try to insert some new ideas into our own context.

I did that many times in my life and every time I learned something that subsequently, I put into practice with great results.

I have noticed that those genius and inventors had a special characteristic in common: not only they were standing out of the crowd, but also they were free from critiques of their contemporary.

This particular feature has always fascinated me.

I agree it is not so easy to act as a nonconformist but I am also convinced that if you believe in something you feel to be right and in the same time it does not hurt anyone else rights, you should do it!

Is Your Job The Right One?

"Learn to think in positive affirmations. Affirmations are any statements you make. Too often we think in negative affirmations. Negative affirmations only create more of what you say you don't want. Saying, I hate my job, will get you nowhere. Declaring, I now accept a wonderful new job, will open the channels in your consciousness to create that."

Louise Hay

If you are passionate about your job and if it makes you happy, what I am going to say probably does not concerns you.

I would not to bother anyone, but I have always thought about the following fact:

if you feel eager or even frustrated and if you have troubles interacting with your colleagues and with your entourage, probably your current job is not the right one.

Have you ever considered that someone else could do your inconvenient and hated job cheerfully?

I mean that someone else maybe most adaptive and who has fewer ambitions is losing his opportunity while you are occupying this role.

I would not say that you are going wrong, only that you could improve your job anytime if you want.

Many in the workforce are experiencing a nagging, growing sense of being too driven, with little or no time for family, important relationships or other personal values.

Maybe what you need is a greater sense of fulfillment and spiritual growth in what you are doing.

Maybe you are looking for community and meaning in your job.

Then you are examining different choices and opportunities keeping in mind your education, your potential and aims and your past job experiences.

I am firmly convinced that every one of us has the right in the long-term to approach him to the ideal and ever dreamed occupation.

If you do the right job, you are more happy and other people too! It works better both for you and for others.

It is finally a win-win situation.

Build Your Own Lifeline

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."

Mahatma Gandhi

If you want to improve yourself you need to understand who are you and what are your deeper aims.

To do this you have first to summarize the big events of your life.

I know it; it is very difficult and uneasy to put the face in our past.

Nevertheless, if you are able to do this, you will benefit from this experience and to define your objectives will become easier.

When I achieved my Master Degree (MBA) in Switzerland, I was 32 and I was coming out from one of my bigger emotional losses.

Exactly at this turning point of my life, I was able to know myself deep inside and to answer my big questions.

I took a piece of paper and I wrote in these three columns: Age/Phase, Big Events and Feelings.

Then, line by line, I wrote in on instinct all my precedent experiences from age of 18 until 32.

This was the main event of my life! I was light up!

Finally, all became clear in my mind: who I was, what was most important for me at that moment, which were my top priorities, and so on...

It is most frequent to achieve this task during our crisis and most critical phases, rather than during our normal life trends.

A Lifeline can be helpful to value ourselves now and to be more confident and aware in current and future transitions.

We cannot change the past. However, we have choices about how we let it influence and inspire our future.

Know Yourself

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will
not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius
will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the
world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone
are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve
the problems of the human race”

Calvin Coolidge,American 30th President of the United States, 1872-1933

Know Yourself!

The greatest ideal that one can intend is his or her own improvement.

We do not have other purpose in the life that to become what we potentially are.

We am too often an agglomeration of external influences, a building painted to the outside and dyed of more attractive colors, but we don't know what there is to the inside.

Without the knowledge of ourselves, we can never reach any stable and lasting objective.

However, be careful! When you start a self-improvement process or simply you try to change your own habits, a conflict appears in your mind.

This because the mind it will look for in all the ways of escapes both to the control that to the job needed by the techniques to which you has not gotten used.

That is why many fail or they easily find the excuses that do not have time to sufficiency to study or to improve themselves!

It needs therefore to be aware the first challenge that attends us and that we have to overcome it is our same mind and our habits.

Take Action Now

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

Benjamin Franklin

I know: decision making it is not an easy task! Nevertheless, it is up to you to start to improve your skills and job position.

First you need motivation and free time.

If you are not sure about your wishes, then you need a plan.

Do you have enough money? If you have money, you can inscribe yourself to a time management course either on line or in your region.

Then you need to clarify your main goal: is it to make more money, to reach a better job position, to improve your family safety?

Whatever is your main goal, you need motivation, free time and a plan.

At this point, you can take action and do it. Go on line and search for "self-improvement" or "career planning" terms.

Go to your preferred library and relax, something is going to happens.

I think that motivation, inspiration and self-confidence are the secret weapons to begin any complex task.

Where To Begin?

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

Where To Begin?

This is a great question, but it's crucial too! How not to be overwhelmed by tons of information?

Well, I will tell you the truth: there is not a point of departure! The question should be: When to begin?

It does not matter where, but when: when you are ready and inspired.

If you are confident enough and sure of what you want you will feel relaxed and on top of things.

Of course you need to know what are you searching for which is your goal and purpose.

The main obstacle I always face when I start a research is my impatience!

It is not easy to find the right information you need, especially at the beginning.

You need to create your own trusted information sources list, systematically.

Learn to tease the universal from the particular.

It seems like there is no end to information, but knowledge is an entirely different thing, and the glut of information is merely panoply of essays at knowledge.

Let yourself be a dilettante until something grabs you, and then ride that out for what it's worth.

Be a participant, not a consumer, and trust your own judgments on that front.

Why Independent Learning Is So Important

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self."
Aldous Huxley, Author

Hi there everyone! My name is Maurizio, I'm a self-learner since I exist.I am not a radical neither a protester, maybe I am substantially a nonconformist, and I prefer a "self-made" man.

Despite my formal education, I spent about 25 years of my life learning and experimenting always by me.

My experience can give you evidence the best long-term investment is to invest in your education and knowledge.

Nevertheless, why Independent Learning and Self-Learning are on my opinion so important?

Because they could help you to reach your goals much faster and in the same time they carry out your oneness!

I'm not talking about philosophy; I'm talking about career improvement and self-improvement.

Thomas Edison, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Abigail Adams, Benjamin Franklin, the Wright Brothers, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, and Margaret Mead are only a few of those who have learned without school.

Independent Learners learn what they want to learn, when they want to learn, and in the way they want to learn.

Most learning has always been independent but not most formal education.

Now e-learning is emancipating learners who want formal education, on their own terms.