Last week I finished reading From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life by Arthur C. Brooks. This book can be helpful for people who are currently doing okay but are concerned with getting into so-called midlife crisis or going through it in the second wave of life. The author talks about two kinds of intelligences. Intelligence as we know is the ability to learn from experience, solve problems and use knowledge to adapt to new situations. Crystalized intelligence represents facts and past experiences which does not decline with age. Fluid intelligence represents the ability to learn new procedures, behaviors and it declines with age. The author prepares a model where he says with age and time, we should be moving from utilizing fluid intelligence to crystalized intelligence more. The author talks about 3 forces holding us back - Addicted to work/success Attac...
I am an engineering leader, a chess enthusiast and an avid reader. I have moved as a software engineer inUSA from my home country Bangladesh at 2005 leaving many of my family members, relatives, friends and good memories. In this journal I want to capture how are my days going here in this migrated place with my wife, son and daughter.