Skill development Archives - Wang Yip's Blog

Six powerful strategies to generate new ideas

by wyipAugust 28, 2020August 28, 20200

The best way to get a good idea is to get a lot of ideas — Linus Pauling Something that I have noticed while I …

Interesting parallels between cooking and creativity

by wyipAugust 20, 2020August 20, 20200

One of my secret ways to get inspired whenever I am in a creative rut is to crack open a cook book. It doesn’t really …

Three ways to improve your listening skills

by wyipJuly 18, 2020July 18, 20200

Among my friends, I’m known as a good listener. But whenever my friends said that, I often wondered what it is that I did that …

Seven things I wished I had learned earlier in my life

by wyipJuly 2, 2020July 2, 20200

After Essential Habits, I am working on another book. One thing that interested me as I was doing research reading and going through online courses is …

My process for reading and absorbing information from books

by wyipJune 22, 2020June 22, 20200

Over the years of reading numerous books, I have developed and refined my process for absorbing information from books. It took me an embarrassingly long …

How to develop and use a personal library to improve yourself

by wyipJune 11, 2020June 11, 20200

A long time ago, before I started purchasing books, I read an article that said that there was a correlation between successful individuals and reading. …

Small experiments – ten experiments I am currently running in my life

by wyipMay 18, 2020May 18, 20200

Although I like to think that I have some of the things in my life figured out, I am constantly running small experiments to understand …

The benefits of creating a podcast

by wyipApril 24, 2020April 24, 20200

Back in the day, my friend Shawn Kanungo and I ran two podcasts, one after the other. The first was called The Dip, and featured interviews with …