History can surprise you in ways you can't even imagine. You think you've got a good flow of human history and are rather familiar with the exact timeline of various important events.

- The first pyramids were built when the majestic wooly mammoth was still alive

They might just seem of as purely Ice Age creatures, and although most of them did die out 10,000 years ago, a very tiny population on an isolated Wrangel Island survived until 1650 BC. Which, if we come to think of it, is pretty recent! How you may ask? Well, apparently until 1650, the Egyptian pharaohs were already 1500 years old and the Great Pyramids of Giza were 1000 years old. That mea ..

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THIS IS UUM ... ! =)

Its will be my future story right ? haha .. nonsense .. but, still possible ;)

                                         Why Attitude Is More Important Than Intelligence ?

                                                                                                   
When it comes to success, it’s easy to think that people blessed with brains are inevitably going to leave the rest of us in the dust. But new research from Stanford University will change your mind (and your attitude).
Psychologist Carol Dweck has spent her entire career studying attitude and performance, and her latest study shows that your attitude is a better predictor of your success than your IQ.
Dweck found that people’s core attitudes fall into one of two categories: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.

With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you’re challenged because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to make you feel hopeless and overwhelmed.

People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.

Common sense would suggest that having ability, like being smart, inspires confidence. It does, but only while the going is easy. The deciding factor in life is how you handle setbacks and challenges. People with a growth mindset welcome setbacks with open arms.
According to Dweck, success in life is all about how you deal with failure. She describes the approach to failure of people with the growth mindset this way,

“Failure is information—we label it failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, and I’m a problem solver, so I’ll try something else.’”

Regardless of which side of the chart you fall on, you can make changes and develop a growth mindset. What follows are some strategies that will fine-tune your mindset and help you make certain it’s as growth oriented as possible.

Don’t stay helpless. 

We all hit moments when we feel helpless. The test is how we react to that feeling. We can either learn from it and move forward or let it drag us down. There are countless successful people who would have never made it if they had succumbed to feelings of helplessness: Walt Disney was fired from the Kansas City Star because he “lacked imagination and had no good ideas,” Oprah Winfrey was fired from her job as a TV anchor in Baltimore for being “too emotionally invested in her stories,” Henry Ford had two failed car companies prior to succeeding with Ford, and Steven Spielberg was rejected by USC’s Cinematic Arts School multiple times. Imagine what would have happened if any of these people had a fixed mindset. They would have succumbed to the rejection and given up hope. People with a growth mindset don’t feel helpless because they know that in order to be successful, you need to be willing to fail hard and then bounce right back.

Be passionate.

 Empowered people pursue their passions relentlessly. There’s always going to be someone who’s more naturally talented than you are, but what you lack in talent, you can make up for in passion. Empowered people’s passion is what drives their unrelenting pursuit of excellence. Warren Buffet recommends finding your truest passions using, what he calls, the 5/25 technique: Write down the 25 things that you care about the most. Then, cross out the bottom 20. The remaining 5 are your true passions. Everything else is merely a distraction.

Take action. 

It’s not that people with a growth mindset are able to overcome their fears because they are braver than the rest of us; it’s just that they know fear and anxiety are paralyzing emotions and that the best way to overcome this paralysis is to take action. People with a growth mindset are empowered, and empowered people know that there’s no such thing as a truly perfect moment to move forward. So why wait for one? Taking action turns all your worry and concern about failure into positive, focused energy.

Then go the extra mile (or two). 

Empowered people give it their all, even on their worst days. They’re always pushing themselves to go the extra mile. One of Bruce Lee’s pupils ran three miles every day with him. One day, they were about to hit the three-mile mark when Bruce said, “Let’s do two more.” His pupil was tired and said, “I’ll die if I run two more.” Bruce’s response? “Then do it.” His pupil became so angry that he finished the full five miles. Exhausted and furious, he confronted Bruce about his comment, and Bruce explained it this way: “Quit and you might as well be dead. If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there; you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
If you aren’t getting a little bit better each day, then you’re most likely getting a little worse—and what kind of life is that?

Expect results. 

People with a growth mindset know that they’re going to fail from time to time, but they never let that keep them from expecting results. Expecting results keeps you motivated and feeds the cycle of empowerment. After all, if you don’t think you’re going to succeed, then why bother?

Be flexible. 

Everyone encounters unanticipated adversity. People with an empowered, growth-oriented mindset embrace adversity as a means for improvement, as opposed to something that holds them back. When an unexpected situation challenges an empowered person, they flex until they get results.

Don't complain when things don't go your way. 

Complaining is an obvious sign of a fixed mindset. A growth mindset looks for opportunity in everything, so there’s no room for complaints.

Bringing it all together

By keeping track of how you respond to the little things, you can work every day to keep yourself on the right side of the chart above.


Ref : http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/253095

We Are Awesome - Entrepreneurs

                                   What is the most inspiring aspect of entrepreneurship to you?

You know them. By name. By reputation. They are the living legends, the household names, the superstars. They are the entrepreneurs who have succeeded against all odds and beyond anyone’s wildest dreams. How did they make it? What catapulted them to the pinnacle of success?

Was it some genetic mutation, raw brilliance or freakish bit of luck? It was none of these. Yet it was all of these. And it was something more. Beyond their sizzling hot businesses and flashy personal brands, many entrepreneurs have a depth of character.
They think in ways that few others do. The sayings quoted below encapsulate such thinking. These sayings aren’t inscribed, framed in some museum or attributed to any entrepreneur specifically. Rather, these quotations comprise the mental attitude of an entrepreneur who knows what he or she wants, knows how to get it, and knows that success is going to happen.

If the entrepreneurial ethos could speak, here is what it would say.

1. 'I don’t care what they think.'

Lao Tzu said,

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

Successful entrepreneurs know this to be true. It sounds callous to not care what people think, but a healthy disregard for public opinion is essential to doing work that matters.
When entrepreneurs get hung up on how people perceive him, think of them, say about them, write about them and talk about them, they're not on the path toward building an exemplary business. Instead, they are on a path to try to please the crowds.

2. 'I will dream bigger than you ever dared.'

Before a business can be built, a dream must be dreamed.
Howard Tullman wrote,

Dear entrepreneurs: Have a dream and make it a big one.

Good advice. When I myself read the mission of SpaceX, I’m tempted to snicker:

SpaceX . . . was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Live on other planets. Seriously? But that’s the kind of convention-defying dreams an entrepreneur must possess. My own dreams are smaller, but they are still dreams. They seemed unlikely when I first dreamed them, but, looking back, I’m glad I dreamed, and dared and did it.
Go ahead. Thumb your nose at convention, and unleash your biggest and most insane dream.

3. 'That’s stupid.'

You’ve got to know when something simply won’t work.
Building a business entails a maelstrom of massive change and rapid movement. If you decide to labor over every decision and analyze every move, you’re going to be stuck. Sometimes, you need to label an idea, a plan, a strategy or a decision as “stupid,” and move on.
Steve Jobs once told competitor George Bodenheimer,

Your phone is the dumbest f**king idea I have ever heard.

Jobs wasn’t afraid of ticking people off, and calling a spade a spade. You can be more nuanced in your speech, but you have to be clear in your mind about what’s going to work and what’s not.

4. 'We’ll learn how.'

An entrepreneur is an inventor. He or she devises new ways of doing new things. Business-building is an adventure in learning how to do new things, with new customers, new models, new approaches, new solutions, new needs, new niches, new markets. The entrepreneur’s experience is awash in new.
The only way to do new things is to learn new things. Elon Musk taught himself rocket science and then founded SpaceX. Thomas Edison taught himself 10,000 lessons about what wouldn’t work as a light bulb filament.
If you want to build a business, you’re going to learn a few things. You don’t need school. You just need to do. You can learn as you go.

5. 'Try again.'

After every failure comes a “try again.” One of the most well-known quotes in the English language goes like this:

If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try, try again

A schoolteacher named William Hickson popularized the quote in the 1800s. His advice is at the heart and soul of the business-building, failure-defying, success-pursuing attitude of millions of entrepreneurs the world over. Failure is part of the warp and woof of entrepreneurial culture. An entrepreneur, after all is defined as someone who takes on risk. When the risk ends in anything other than success, it’s called a failure.
The failure culture is impossible to miss. Just take a gander at the reporting literature on the subject:

• “Fail fast, fail often.” (A mantra)
• “Silicon valley loves failures.” (Inc.)
• “The psychic toll of unrelenting failure simmers just beneath the exuberance.” (The Guardian)
• “Now failure is emerging as a badge of honor.” (The New York Times)
• “Failing is succeeding.” (Newsweek)
• “Failure is the New Economy's new religion.” (Marketplace)
• “When a startup fails, that’s a success, since epidemic failure is a hallmark of disruptive innovation.” (The New Yorker)

Nearly every successful entrepreneur has built his or her business on the foundation of failure. Once failure has run its course -- as it must -- it is time to try again.
The business failure rate is staggering. But it’s the “try again” anecdotes that showcase the entrepreneurial drive.

• Richard Branson started around 500 companies. Only a handful have been successful.
• Colonel Sanders tried 1,009 times before a restaurant purchased his secret fried chicken recipe.
• Tim Westergren, who founded Pandora, tried more than 300 times to pitch his business to venture capitalists.
• James Dyson got his vaccum design right only after he tried 5,126 times.

So, you see? It pays to try again.
And again.
And again.

6. 'It’s not too late.'

The prototypical “entrepreneur” is a twentysomething, with a dream, some drive and a Silicon Valley zip code (that, and the dietary resilience to eat ramen noodles for three to five years).
But, who says that an entrepreneur has to be a Stanford-grad developer who’s wet behind the ears? Many entrepreneurs know that it’s not too late in life to pull up the tent pegs and head for the entrepreneurial hills.
Plenty of business builders have launched their entrepreneurial careers well past their prime. The so-called sunset years are nothing short of a new beginning.

Conclusion

For success-sniffing entrepreneurs, the game is never over. Instead, it’s a new inning.
Whether your entrepreneurial journey is winding up, cruising right along or at a dead standstill, take inspiration from these attitudes, and see where it will take you.
What is the most inspiring aspect of entrepreneurship to you?

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/251737 

I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work. —Plato

There are people and there are trends. Behind both? Thought. And the reinvention of thought. Trends and people can never be separated. The people part represents the soul -- the heartbeat.
What are trends? That’s the thing: They are created by humans rethinking the known ways of doing things. People are the force behind new ideas.
And one thing we’ve learned here is that behind invention is humanity. There’s math and there’s something more: people and thought and passion -- and the fire in the belly that lights the two.

es, we have trends and the things that will define our future economy, but almost always, without fail, people define the trends. And the trends define the future. You, as entrepreneurs, are the future. The two are inextricably connected. Trends without the intellect are just numbers.
When Edison created the first commercially viable light bulb, it was unheard of. It was unexpected and very much a new way of thinking. It was novel. And so, too, are the stories of Jack Dorsey, Kathleen Kennedy, Satya Nadella, Ellen Pao, Richard Plepler, Meg Whitman and, yes, Taylor Swift. They are the intellectual capital who will define future opportunities.

And there are surfers. Surfers who, well, surf -- and make fashionable hoodies. And do so with aplomb.

Putting a surfer on our cover was not an easy choice. Because since when do surfers embody the spirit of entrepreneurship? Since they started making clothes, and realizing new ways of experiencing life. Just like Kelly Slater, whose company represents one of our trends of 2016 -- apparel brands making sustainable fashion.
This issue celebrates both people and trends -- and the opportunities they create. We love looking at the choreography of new ways of thinking, but also at the unexplained magic of the intellect behind it.
We’ve never had a surfer on the cover before, but we’re proud we do this month because he captures the spirit of adventure and entrepreneurship. Just like you.

                                                       

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                    Firman Allah : 'maka nikmat manakah yang kamu dustakan?' (Surah Ar-Rahman)



'Tiada suatu bencana yang menimpa di bumi dan (tidak pula) pada dirimu sendiri, melainkan dia telah tertulis dalam kitab (Lauh Mahfuzh) sebelum Kami menciptakannya.” (QS. Al-Hadid: 22)

TINTA pena telah mengering, lembaran-lembaran catatan ketentuan telah disimpan, setiap perkara telah diputuskan dan takdir telah ditetapkan.
Maka, Katakanlah: “Sekali-kali tidak akan menimpa kami, melainkan apa yang telah ditetapkan oleh Allah bagi kami.” (QS. At-Taubah: 51)

Apa yang membuat Anda benar, maka tak akan membuat Anda salah. Sebaliknya, apa yang membuat Anda salah, maka tidak akan membuat Anda benar.

Jika keyakinan tersebut tertanam kuat pada jiwa Anda dan kukuh bersemayam dalam hati Anda, maka setiap bencana akan menjadi karunia, setiap ujian menjadi anugerah, dan setiap peristiwa menjadi penghargaan dan pahala.

“Barangsiapa yang oleh Allah dikehendaki menjadi baik maka ia akan diuji oleh-Nya.” (Al Hadits)

Karena itu, jangan pernah merasa gundah dan bersedih dikarenakan suatu penyakit, kematian yang semakin dekat, kerugian harta, atau rumah terbakar. Betapapun, sesungguhnya Sang Maha Pencipta telah menentukan segala sesuatunya dan takdir telah bicara. Usaha dan upaya dapat sedemikian rupa, tetapi hak untuk menentukan tetap mutlak milik Allah.