李東海

Unsolicited advice for my children and their children's children when they are ready. Don't play it safe but go after what you want. Seek adventures! Default to adventures!

DATING strategy for women is different from men. Women should hunt whereas men should fish. A woman should target and learn about the man that she wants a relationship with. A man should bait and date women that showed interest to see if the women is right for him.

EVERYTHING comes with a price, big or small. Are you willing to pay the price?

FUN, FAME & FUND are the three main fundamental reasons why people do what they do. They might give you different reasons but it all comes to one of these three when everything is stripped away.

MICROSCOPE & TELESCOPE are two tools that will give different perspectives. Use your telescope to see where you want to go. Use the microscope for your daily tasks to align them with what you see with your telescope.

"Everyone knew it was impossible." Until a foolish person did it.

Choose your friends to choose your life.

SURPRISED is how you learn. Do new activities. Visit new places. Eat different cuisines. Listen to different music. Meet new people. Read new subjects. Think with different perspectives. Let it surprise you into curiosities.

The world is a big theater and we are just actors and actresses in it. Each individual can play many different roles. A few people choose their roles and most people just default to their roles.

MONEY or resources are the best way to understand an individual. How they earn it. How they spend it. How they use it. How they value it. All of this will give you an accurate understanding of that person's past, what they currently want and what their future will be.

Materialism was created by capitalism to increase consumerism for individualism in permanent perpetuity. Money is neither good nor bad but how you use it. Watch how each person earns and spends their money to understand their personality and their past.

DISTRIBUTED LEARNING is a process of learning bits and pieces from different sources in order to form your own opinions or conclusions.

INDIVIDUALISM & COLLECTIVISM have their benefits and issues. At their extremes. Individualism enables innovation & dynamism at harmony & stability expenses. Collectivism enables stability & harmony but slows down progress and innovation.

Learn to think but don't be taught what to think.

The best way to get to the correct answer is to start with the wrong answer. All you need is to provide any answer to everyone and let people help you get you closer to the correct answer. It's what I call DELEGATE THINKING.

LEARNING & SUCCEEDING. To learn, keep asking yourself and others questions to get answers. To succeed, keep trying and failing until you are successful. Learning & succeeding are the same, you must take actions. It's that simple but not easy.

OPPORTUNITIES & PROBLEMS are the same things. Each individual perception dictates which one it is.

FISH & PONDS. If you can't be a big fish in a big pond then be a big fish in a smaller pond. Still can't find a pond where you are the big fish? Then create your pond where you are the big fish.

CAPEX & OPEX. In business & life, it's always worth it to spend more in capital expenditure (CAPEX) to save in operating expenses (OPEX). That's how you leverage money and resources in life and business.

PERFECTION can only be pursued but never achieved. You can't think yourself to perfection but you can take actions to pursue perfection.

Appreciate the NEW things for its novelty and inventive characteristics. Appreciate the OLD things for its unique characteristics acquired through earned experiences.