Why I Write?
Why reading and writing become important for me.
The reason why I started this because all my activities is kind of boring lately and I need something new. In 2019 Amount of book i’ve read this year is decreased and this leads to my 2020 resolution. To finish a book once in a month then to write at least an article about the book i read in medium.
New Year Resolution
Talking about goals and resolution I learned a lot in past few years. I used to target stuff to be done or achieve something big in the end of the year. Turned out everything I was aimed is just a bullshit. Just few of them are achieved. Then I learned to make a resolution is different to dreaming. To make a resolution is to set a realistic target at first. A successful year isn’t counted by how many things you have achieved this year but how many things you have done as you planned before. The idea is to make sure you do your part, results will follow.
Sometimes people put too much attention to the prize and they don’t have specific plan to win the prize.
Let’s say you want to lose weight 10kgs in the end of the year. Sometimes people just dreaming about that and break it into a monthly plan to lose 1 kg in a month. Yes that’s a nice and planned. But people just stopped there without specific action. Days passed, months passed and in the end of the year the goal isn’t achieved.
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Instead of aiming to lose 1 kg in a month you better focus on action like aiming to reduce your carbo, only eat sweets and chips a pack in small size once in a week and go to gym twice a week. Do something real and measurable. If necessary break that a year resolution into weekly plan. Don’t overthink about your goal just keep in mind that results will follow the effort. That’s give you less stress about the goal itself.
Instead of aiming to lose 1 kg in a month, better aiming to reducing your sweets and carbo consumption into a half, also aim to go to gym 8 times in a month. That’s more realistic and measurable.
Why Reading & Writing?
Everybody knew in 5 years you will become what you read today. I found similarity among successful person. They read. And the bitter truth about today is our literacy number is decreasing year after year. People tend to spend their time with their phone with their social media or just watching movies in their spare time. Including me. As I remember I bought over 5 books this year and I only can finish one of them. It because it’s getting harder to focus on reading book without being distracted over phone notification. That’s why I want to push myself to increase number of book I’m going to read in 2020.
The reason I write in english is to improve my english ability. I clearly remember about my job interview last year. That day I feel confidence about my english ability because I can read, I can understand spoken english and I have no problem with talking to complete stranger on internet from all over the world. Plus my TOEFL and TOEIC score are not that bad. I was being interviewed at one of foreign car manufacturer, the manager who interviewed me is from china. He only understands chinese and english language so I speak with him with english. I thought that was going to be easy since I use english everyday on internet. Turns out it’s not, I don’t know why I lost almost half of my english ability and speak like a caveman. But don’t worry about that story, I passed the interview anyway.
But my concern was why I lost my english ability, and one of the reason why i cannot perform well at my interview was, i rarely write in english, even if i did it was just short sentences in twitter. That’s why i find it difficult to make long sentences and even paragraphs. Because of that i started to write something. To improve my english skill.
Everybody can read english, some can understand spoken english, but only few of them can write in english.
Why I choose to write summary from books I just read?
Its because if I read once then I know, if I read twice I then i understand, if I tell people about what I read then i remember. Besides not everyone have enough time to read a book so I make a summary about the book i just read so people can know the main idea of the book without reading the whole book.
If I read once then I know, if I read twice I then i understand, if I tell people about what I read then i remember.
