#kakinota : the obstacle is the way - ryan holiday

The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph.

The book taught us how to acknowledge obstacles in our life. To embrace it. And to turn it into something that will help and guide us towards our goals.

The author gave a lot of well known personalities as examples people who change their obstacles into triumphs.

Through his extensive research , the author explained how each of them worked very hard and persistent to overturn their problems into something great.

What I find the most endearing was when he advice readers to :
1. Hard work
2. Honesty
3. Helping others as best we can.

I have mentioned before that my late father also emphasised the same advice which I held dearly in my heart.

1. Lead life with honesty and integrity
2. Giving your best in everything you do
3. Never ever ever do bad thing to others
4. Adaptability

Then whatever life put you through, you will be fine. Universe will show you the way out somehow.

And he didn't even read Mr Holiday book.

He didn't have high education to know it.

                 

  " This too shall pass."  -  Abraham Lincoln.

                             10/10

# kakinota : lullabies - lang leav

I have high expectation from Ms Leav.

I read her first book - love and misadventure.

I loved it.

And when I saw her second version, I'm so excited.

But sadly the book is not as good as I expected it to be.

The stories in between were longer and I couldn't understand what and how they correlated with each other.

Furthermore the poems were not as good as the first version. Even if it is just for light reading, I wouldn't recommend it. After I read it a loud, the whole book sound like a sad book which make the whole reading experience confused and depressed.

It was different experience altogether with her first version which  make me feel excited and happy as a lot of the poems sound funny and cheeky.


                   

               

                           4/10

#kakinota : think big by ben carson

                                 

                                                 

Dr Ben Carson is a well known and respected person in States and in medical arena through out the world.

But for me, who is in a far far away land, I don't know who Dr Ben Carson is. 

I just read it. I never heard his name before. Never watched his movie. Never read his other book.

Firstly, his book is full with medical jargon unless Dr Ben explained it in layman terms, are quite confusing.

I would like to emphasised that I really really really admire and respect his mom. I believed her strong influence in her sons' life is what shape them today - successful and respected person.

I personally liked her famous quote :

"You can do anything they can do - only you must try to do it better."

Dr Carson wrote about his childhood until he started his medical career. He thanked all persons involved in helping him through out his life.

Dr Carson strongly believed that reading is the utmost important attitude we needed to ingrain into ourselves, our children, our community and our country to make world a better place.

Knowledge not only open our mind, it also open many doors of opportunities. 

Knowledge help improve Dr Carson life tremendously -  from poverty to become one of the best expert in the medical world.

Dr Carson encouraged his readers to try our best in any chosen field and always trust in GOD. 

He explained :

T - Talent

H - Honesty

 I  - Insight

N - Nice

K - Knowledge

B - Books

 I - In-depth knowledge

G - GOD

Recently I once read a survey done by a well known company here (not US or EU) which result shown that :

"The rich read more books and spend less time watching tv. The reading habit seems strongly correlated with household income. Either the rich have more time to read or 

they are richer because they read more."

I believed this is what Dr Carson's mom observed while working in those wealthy families.

                                  10/10