Book Title: The 4-Hour Work Week
Book chapter: L is for Liberation
Author:Timothy Ferries Reviewed by: Jason Cheng Qi Quan
Finally, it reaches the last part of the DEAL process which is liberation! Liberation means you are free from suffering and boredom and acquire the life that you are looking for. New rich shares two techniques to achieve liberated life. They are continual learning and serving.
Learning is important in our life because it helps discover ourselves and unlock possibilities. Therefore, we must practice lifelong learning. Most of us thought that learning is not equivalent to enjoy life. However, not all learning is struggling. You can choose to learn your favourite skills and indulge in the learning session. For example, let's say you are interested in cooking. You can acquire cooking tutorials from internet, buy recipe and start to practice. Start to cook for your loved ones. Deliver delicious food to them and get feedback. Accept feedback and improve next time.You will feel that life is enjoyable when your favourite skill can contribute to society!
Dancing is one of my favourite hobbies in my life. Therefore, I will allocate 1 hour in the weekend to practice my dance. I get the dancing tutorial from youtube and start practice dancing. I feel excited when I am dancing. When I learn one step successfully, I feel great because I learn new things! New achievement unlocked when I am able to dance with full music without referring to the tutorial video. This is the spirit of learning. If you found what you love, you will keep challenging yourself and grow because you like it.
You can learn by doing. When you learn a method or a quote from a book, don't let knowledge stay in your brain. Let it flow and unleash your potential. Apply it into your daily life and improve yourself. After you learn new things, relate them to what you know previously.New knowledge is added to the top of your old knowledge.You feel happy when you acquired new skill set. Learning is a long journey. Don't set too high expectations of the results. Just learn based on your inner heart and enjoy it.
Secondly, we can serve the community to make our life better. It is not necessary to save the world. You can give a smile to the people around you and bring happiness to them. It is one of the simple steps that spread positive energy around.
Work hard by helping others makes you enjoy the moment of striving. How to feel good about yourself in the middle of striving? Strive for a meaningful goal that matches your core values. Seek for internal reward. You feel satisfied after your hard work paid off. For example, If you are good at public speaking, help the people who need public speaking skill. Some people are fearful of the public speaking but they wish to learn.Grab this chance to become their mentor and teach them patiently. Offer your help without expecting any return. When you see they are improving, you will feel satisfied and experience highlights in your life. Although not all returns are monetary,the return of good feelings is priceless. Why do we need more money? To seek good feelings in life. Don't always think about how to earn more money, we must think how to provide value to others. Improving the quality of other life will make our life more meaningful. Money will be attracted towards you because of your vibrant life.
Lastly, we can't deny the fact that life is difficult. What we can do is believe in our values,seek happiness from normal daily life and appreciate every moment that we have in life.
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