July 14, 2010 by Eric Nishio

Don’t Be Influenced by Other Quitters

No comments Positive Thinking, Success Story

Something happened last semester that will probably have a permanent impact on my self-esteem. It was in cold January that I enrolled in a compulsory course on information security in which we had to split into small groups of three to four members, and develop a security system. These projects are usually quite demanding, since [...]

June 6, 2010 by Eric Nishio

The Will to Study Must Often Be Acquired

No comments Positive Thinking, Self-Motivation

Studying at school and studying by yourself are like the yin and yang of education (terrible cliché, I know). The government takes you to school, and makes you learn a bunch of things, mostly related to subjects that are of no interest to you. But this raises a huge problem. Many of us didn’t like [...]

January 26, 2010 by Eric Nishio

Every Blunder You Make is a Milestone Toward Success

No comments Positive Thinking

Last week’s theme was primarily centered upon the topics of giving up easily and being discouraged by slow results. Today, I’m also going to continue along the same path and talk to you about the mistakes we make and why we should treat them positively. We’ve all heard the phrase “we learn from our mistakes” [...]

January 23, 2010 by Eric Nishio

Don’t Get Discouraged By Not Being Able to Apply Your Skills Immediately

No comments Positive Thinking

Last time I talked about why people quit so easily. There can be many underlying reasons why we end up quitting activities. One major discourager is not being able to apply the skills immediately. We know how much time we’ve invested in learning a skill, but after all those hours we realize that we still [...]

January 13, 2010 by Eric Nishio

Get Inspired by People to Learn New Skills

No comments Learning Methods, Positive Thinking, Self-Motivation

Studying is a subject a lot of us dread. We’ve all been through some form of schooling in our lives, and know how uninteresting and monotonous cramming information into our brain can be. I remember hating the home economics class back in junior high school because of all the cleaning we had to do. Plus, [...]

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