Comments on: 10 Pearls of wisdom taken from my reading and my experience as an entrepreneur

By: Top 10 Best Books for Entrepreneurs | diydollars.com

Top 10 Best Books for Entrepreneurs | diydollars.com — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:16:39 +0000

[...] 10 Pearls of Wisdom Taken From My Reading and Experience as an Entrepreneur [...]

By: Olivier Roland’s “Crazy” Side Project (The Personal MBA)

Olivier Roland’s “Crazy” Side Project (The Personal MBA) — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:48:20 +0000

[...] and have learned a lot of interesting things. I’ve written a summary of some in my article 10 Pearls of Wisdom Taken from My Reading and My Experience as an Entrepreneur, but it shows only a little of what I’ve [...]

By: GTD, Implementation - 1 | Books that can change your life

GTD, Implementation - 1 | Books that can change your life — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 20:57:52 +0000

[...] I really don’t understand reader French Olivier Maxime who, by way of criticizing pearl No. 7 in my previous article – rightly insisting on the importance of tidying up your desk – sent me a photo of Einstein’s [...]

By: Ankit

Ankit — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:27:36 +0000

Thanks Oliver for the advice , I have seen it in my life that to get the best ideas brainstorming is the best exercise , Attack the idea and not the person and keep the rigor. While solving one of the case study at my B school we started the discussion at 11 pm but the best ideas actually came at 3:30 .

By: Olivier Roland

Olivier Roland — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:17:27 +0000

Thanks Ankit, I hope you will now try to think at least half an hour a day to try to find solutions and ideas
I try do it, and I’m not able to achieve that on a daily basis, but I already came with numerous ideas each time I used it.

By: Ankit

Ankit — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:39:16 +0000

Amazing Pearls . Life transforming and full of practical utility . Liked the one about Idea the most , Yes our brains are most un utilized asset and the best ideas are never thought of .

Thanks .

By: Olivier Roland

Olivier Roland — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 18:04:39 +0000

Hello Grace,

Excellent suggestions ! I think one the principals key to success in our life is to periodically join a group or a challenge where we are virtually nobody, and where we have to learn all from beginning. Fortunately, in most cases people don’t expect beginners to perform well, so it’s a good place to fail and learn from our firsts mistake

Your second point is excellent and is the central topic of Getting Things Done. Have a “pure” spirit, “spirit like water” is one of my goal for 2009 and I will use mainly GTD for that.

By: Grace Kleppin

Grace Kleppin — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:37:06 +0000

Excellent suggestions. I’d like to leave you with two more:

1. Don’t be afraid to be a beginner. Often, when we have reached the pinacle of success in our chosen field, the only way to get new challenges is to start over. Learning how to fall, in addition to learning how to fail, is essential.

2. Watch out for contaminated time. If you need to be concentrating on one thing, but your mind is filled with thoughts of extraneous OTHER things, your concepts will not be pure.

Have an uncluttered mind as well as an uncluttered desk. G.

By: Give Yourself the Gift of the Personal MBA | Business Pundit

Give Yourself the Gift of the Personal MBA | Business Pundit — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 16:29:34 +0000

[...] off the PMBA list in 52 weeks, and he’s blogging the experience. I dare you to take a look at this post and not be inspired to read more. Maybe you don’t need to commit to the whole list, but maybe [...]

By: A week without books - Implementing GTD and thinking | Books that can change your life

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:26:42 +0000

[...] i wrote in my previous article about 10 pearls of wisdom, I have decided not to read a book this week so that I can focus on implementing the GTD method. [...]