School break is always a relief for the teachers. It means freedom from the pupils and school, though not entirely, but most of time..YES!
(Can you imagine, living without school break for the children? and the teachers??)
As for my break, I'd started with travelling and spending time with my two lovely gorgeous friends to Singapore (am not telling you about that in this post..), then travelling locally and most importantly, managed to visit the Big Bad Wolf (BBW) yearly book sale (yup, he was "bad").
In this post, I'm about to share an idea brought by the author Karim Rashid, which I bought during BBW, in his book Design Yourself (fantastic book!)
Before we begin, lets have a brief introduction about this author. You can read here.
One of the ideas which he wrote in his book was "Adding by Subtracting".
The idea he brought was to make people to value QUALITY rather than QUANTITY because as human being, for many times we tend to believe that number surpasses quality. For instance, having 5 tables at home is better than 1 because we have all kinds and shapes of tables (just like myself).
Now,before we believe 5 is better than 1, we should be questioning the type of table that makes us only want ONE table at home.
Perhaps the ONLY table is just A table but it is multi-functional. ONE that can be elongated, ONE that can be reshaped, ONE that can fit any corner and ONE than can be used in any occasion. With just ONE table, everything is fix!
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Personally, I believe this idea can be applied to other events in life as well- Time. Finance. Relationship. etc.
By "subtracting" some out of our life, like bad habits, we can improve our life. By "subtracting" hatred from our heart, we could feel more love.
and two minds aren't always better if one is a moron =)
So start reevaluating every single thing is our life, and start living a better life.
(Can you imagine, living without school break for the children? and the teachers??)
As for my break, I'd started with travelling and spending time with my two lovely gorgeous friends to Singapore (am not telling you about that in this post..), then travelling locally and most importantly, managed to visit the Big Bad Wolf (BBW) yearly book sale (yup, he was "bad").
In this post, I'm about to share an idea brought by the author Karim Rashid, which I bought during BBW, in his book Design Yourself (fantastic book!)
Before we begin, lets have a brief introduction about this author. You can read here.
One of the ideas which he wrote in his book was "Adding by Subtracting".
It really catches me to read the combination of such opposite words.
The idea he brought was to make people to value QUALITY rather than QUANTITY because as human being, for many times we tend to believe that number surpasses quality. For instance, having 5 tables at home is better than 1 because we have all kinds and shapes of tables (just like myself).
Now,before we believe 5 is better than 1, we should be questioning the type of table that makes us only want ONE table at home.
Perhaps the ONLY table is just A table but it is multi-functional. ONE that can be elongated, ONE that can be reshaped, ONE that can fit any corner and ONE than can be used in any occasion. With just ONE table, everything is fix!
............
Personally, I believe this idea can be applied to other events in life as well- Time. Finance. Relationship. etc.
By "subtracting" some out of our life, like bad habits, we can improve our life. By "subtracting" hatred from our heart, we could feel more love.
and two minds aren't always better if one is a moron =)
So start reevaluating every single thing is our life, and start living a better life.