A Weak Heart (?) - Hopefully Not - A Misunderstood

23:58 rafi 0 Comments

Hallo guys!

Things been mixed up recently. Seeing so much youth, being C level, already being 30 Under 30 Forbes, etc. Been asking myself too about "Is it my best? Can I do something better? You may better than this". Yups, currently I'm kinda overthinking lots of things tbh. I start listing my goals again, and reading lots of articles about "C-level" daily routines. Basically what they're talking about is "Successful person" and stuff, not closed with C-level something person.

But it's ok, reading might give me some knowledge, and most likely, perspective. Facing the world would be easier with lots of perspective.

Things been oke, I already wrote my daily schedule, inspired with Benjamin Franklin's daily routines, that perhaps would be used this Sunday onward. After that, I read news (to update my personal interest -which is politics-), and seeing this interesting articles about Jakarta's new governor. Actually made me sad and angry, seems these persons were below my expectations lah. Far far away like Avenged's songs (krik krik krik)

Skipped.

While reading news, I found news about Jokowi, which is recently coming to North Sumatera for having his daughter's marriage. What makes me interested actually not about this marriage, but mostly about how perfect this family is. I mean, they're kind of simple family, that's just want to enjoy themselves, like the rest of us. The news were about how Jokowi enjoy eating Ucok's durian with his mother and grandson, also .... How he's enjoy medan's malls with his family and stuff. It might be simple, but seeing how happy this family is, somehow made me happy and also sad at the same time.

Happy because how modest my president can be, I even put myself in his mother's shoes, I mean she must be the proudest mom in the world, right? Having a successful son not only in business but also running a ****ing country that has quarter billion humans loh.

Eummmm, what about sad? Well, I am sad because ..... If only I still had my mother, I would do anything to make her proud and happy. Also, I am sad because ..... This kind of family trip, almost impossible happened at my family. Since everyone just mind their own business, formerly, my brothers was prefer playing with thy friends. I don't even remember when was the last time our family had dinner together. It's so sad right? We don't really have that tight bond as family tbh :")

Shit. What a weak heart I have.

Oke, in the news, Jokowi was recording for his vlog. Since his vlogs are interesting enough for me. I directly checked her facebook's fanpages loh (se-intent itu). And then, I saw this:

The least I learned from Shokugeki no Souma

00:46 rafi 2 Comments

Gaes,

Tonight I would share things I have learned from Shokugeki no souma.

Well, if you guys loved Anime/ Manga, this one should be on your bucket list of course! To be honest, I was watching the movie first than the manga. And then, since I am not that patient waiting for this, I decided for reading the manga 100 Chapters on 3 days. Haha

As you've probably know. Souma is one of that "Ecchi" manga, which is quite vulgar at the first glance. You may see "foodgasm" which is literally orgasm because eating "delicious" food. Even if it's the disgusting one, yups, they'll have that gasm though.

Despite its "Harem" theme, the plot is extremely enjoyable. Why? Every chapter would lead you to read it more and more. To be honest, lots of thing you could learn through this, such as:

1. Leadership & Strategy

Some are natural leaders, some are trained their leadership skill through their professional experiences. Yups, in this movie, you'll learn Leadership especially Strategy.

FYI, Tootsuki (the school name of this series), have extremely tight values. From thousands of students, only top 1% would be graduated as alumni. Which means, the rest 99% would be expelled through the years.

Despite these extreme values, they have "Shokugeki" event, which is leading to "Food wars" between several Chef. Within their extreme skills, each other should have strategies for cooking their own foods. Even they would rehearse for several days to trials and errors.

During day by day, they even compete and implement all of strategies they have learnt during school. For example, If you watch the anime, on episode 16 and 17, Souma, who's living on Business District to open "Yukihira's Dinner". Feeling something wrong with his surrounding. He saw how quiet his district had been, because of the infrastructure changing. Compounded by his local competitor, Mozuya Kaarage, that's been literally dominated their culinary demand for the locals.

Yups, he wanted to change something. But ..... what he'll do first is analyzing the condition, feeling & trying Karaage Mozuya directly (I called it Customer Experience survey), and analyzed what they could do to compete them.

Souma's reaction to Mozuya Kaarage (Yups, delicious af 😮)

Some might think "How to create better Kaarage" and stuff ..... At first they tried sih, but they can't manage compete that, since their competitor has been researched best recipe year by year. Yups, experienced wins!

And then, they tried to research more, starting with the best ingredient but cheap af, thinking about packaging (for better CE), and last but not least, thinking "How could the customer remember their products". Simple but creative sih in Business environment. Till they concerned about how to improved their products further and beyond!

In the end, they found the answer and ..... Started to do the marketing! Yups, everything should be executed as soon as possible, or they lose the MOMENTUM! And voila, thanks to souma, Business district became crowded anymore, and once again, this proof one thing, monopolized company didn't always win in competitive market IF they didn't focus on their business value, also .... less innovative than the others.

Souma wins! It's not impossible to build your market with GOOD strategies

2. Profit is not always your primary Goal

What I used to read on linkedin about Gojek, they have this shared vision to the employees, more or less it said like this, "Everything you contributed to the company, are always for thousands of drivers". To be honest I inspired them so much, since what they're doing is extremely impactful to the societies. Me myself and I even can't move on from Gojek loh everyday.

Oke next.

What souma did, moreover is same lah. He used to serve hundreds of plates every single day, for 12 years. He always told "Customer first" than how much money they had everyday. And it works! Everyday, everyone would come to their diner, having some food, and yes, being a Loyal Customers. Revenue would be generated like machine lah if you have got these loyalists. This, could assure you one thing, they would come regardless any discount or not at all.

Despite learning from souma, the next character would be Tadokoro Megumi, which is one of good protagonist in the series. And no one could fight her "Customer" awareness except herself. And it helped her to attain "Top" chair, without being backstabbing bitch like other used to. Haha.

Empathy. Empathy. Empathy. Learn empathy at its finest here.





The list could go on .... But I rather continue this in the next article I guess. Hope you learn something too ya :)))

How is it feel to be Feminist? - A 'Love' Story (?)

23:22 rafi 2 Comments

Listening & Observing

22:30 rafi 5 Comments

Hallo guys,

Tonight I would write about these two things: Listening & Observing.

Listening & Observing might be the greatest tool for learning something thoroughly, it could literally make you understand how something works, how exactly something presented, how exactly something discussed with colleagues. Yups, yesterday, I learned the most precious skills for Fresh Graduates. Effective communication, and process to give information from the technical perspective to the business person -that's probably not give any f with the technical - and concerned with results instead. I even learned about how cool the discussion process in Management level perspective, which I believe, the opportunity that can't be bought except you present at the moment.

The point is, I just observed and listened the sharing session about what our team's done for Fashion & Beauty customer segmentation. Fortunately, the customer segmentation were processed by Advance Analytics team -thanks to mas Imam-, and I was taking part in the descriptive data part, since I am in Data Analytics team.

Yups, all of the data has been prepared for 5 days. And ppt has been created by three of us. And here comes the sharing sessions, when my GM presented it to the sales team. Yups, once again I just observed and listened, and of course prepared if someone asked further. Slide by slide, I saw my GM presented it so cool, like lecturer that have 1000 hours fly hours wkwk. Since this is for the business person, all of matter should be presented as clear as possible, and he should prevent any technical terms that perhaps would make these people confused. I enjoyed this process so much, which I've learned this presentation skills from the best one.

And then ..... in the middle of presentation, I kept observing these three GMs from MD3 (Fashion & Beauty sales department), along with Merchandising GM discussed about future strategy of elevenia. I admired how cool they are, they look so flawless and smart af, I mean what they are talking about purely combining between theory and years of experiences in ecommerce business. Enjoyed how effective their discussion are.

Last but not least, everyone's motivated. I know this segmentation would come up with more load of work. Not only for us, but also for sales, design, and even the platform ones. Yups, the goals is to segmenting the customers, and approach them differently based on their behaviors and what product they liked, right? But the perks of having this is ..... the company could generate more revenue even faster, and of course, could cut up lots of cost, also, since the customer love the campaign, and it hits to the target perfectly and stuff, perhaps they buy it anyway, right? And .... at last the insight we generated, because of this collaboration end-to-end in data management, the data could be provided and give lots of insightful recommendation in the future. And once again, this leads me happy since you feel appreciated by giving this impact. Yuhuuuu

#7DaysProductiveChallenge starts, now!

23:10 rafi 0 Comments

<<<<< Currently being envy with young, successful, C level, which makes me wonder, how they spend their time daily. I even searched about it, curious with Daily life of Elon Musk, and looking some books about it. I just found out, that we should -at least- read 500 pages something to get specific knowledge which I wonder whether I could achieve it or not. I guess I am going to begin with organizing everything more beautifully, and need to figure out how I should spend my weekend eventually.

Yups.

Something need to be changed. I should move forward, faster, and live productive and effectively. If you have something in mind, please assure to share with me directly ya. Current goals might be:
1. How to be well-organized person
2. How to be face-paced person
3. How to be detail oriented person
4. How to live productively, even living in the weekend, and keep being happy at the same time.

Must.Change. Currently feeling I am not at my best, and moving forward but not as fast as I could, and not-so focused with the career path I took.

Wish me luck!

#ThanksGodItsFriday #Self-Reminder #Tanjong's Journey

Moving to Quora

00:11 rafi 0 Comments

Hola gaes!

As you knew, it's been a week or more I haven't posted anything at my blog, right? Well, currently I'm writing on Quora.com, to answer anything I could based on my experiences, also ..... it's quite interesting to see answers from many questions in here. This opened my mind that every person has its own obstacle, right? They have their own stories, which sometimes it's sad, or happy, or confusing, or inspiring, anything. Some have ever been in hard situation, while things get better whenever they evaluate themselves to be a better person.

So gaes, I suggest you guys to check it here: https://www.quora.com/answer. And to see my profile, kindly just check it here: https://www.quora.com/profile/Muhammad-Rafi-AlHariri-Nasution. I've been answering several questions about Life, Meteorology, etc.

Do not forget to follow and upvote my answer yaps

Calm down, fans! I would keep updating this blog but not so often la

PS.

This is example of my answer, that's already viewed 1.8K times

Let's stop judging someone, guys!

00:15 rafi 2 Comments

Hello!

So tonight I would share my thought about Judging someone.
Well, as a human, Judging someone has been part of our life. Every time we saw someone did something, whether it makes us Happy or not, we tend to judge him by what they have done. The worst thing is, sometimes we judge people just because their appearance. And I have felt how it feels, even I have judged someone also loh!

What would be my point is ..... Let's start minimizing this kind of things. Just stop judging someone already. Whatever it is, it'll never be that simple. It'll never be as simple as we thought.

Let me give you some example. Whenever someone plain stupid, I mean, somehow it's hard for them to understand things or accepting what have been thought in class. Well, it's not always they're not trying harder, or not learning at all, because as you know, everyone has their own IQ, which is relating with someone's logic. Perhaps, he/she's not really into with mathematical term, but extraordinary with the art.

Whenever you judge someone, if it's bad, you'll have less respect with them, right? And somehow, it could affect your relationship with them. So, instead of judging them that they're not working enough, why don't we try to help them instead? Be a teacher, both of you would have the advantages. She/he could understand what they confused, and you, could learn your communication skills, even learning the matter twice, which would assure you remember that in the future. Win win solution, right?
Next. Since judging someone could affect your respect level toward each other, somehow it could affect you about the value of a person. Let say, because of this person "Gay", you won't believe anything that come from his/her mouth. That's it, it's just done for you. Although, the matters had nothing to do with sexual orientation or gender. What we don't know and might miss, some valuable ideas in the future, which is probably brilliant if we could follow this up.

Next. Have you ever judged someone that you didn't know? Just heard the rumors, or even seeing based on their appearance? I have. And it sucks! I remembered one video that could change your perspective about a "Gift". This commercial were about the passenger, that bought some Donuts. Sitting in waiting room. While he's sitting, he saw this man, that look like homeless person. This person took some Donuts from the plastic, that this man were thinking it's his! And then, they keep eating, till the end, after the announcement, this "homeless" look alike man ready to go, and took last donuts. Instead of taking last donuts, this man slice it half, and give it to the man.

Ok

And then, he get called from the announcement about his flight, take his Jacket, and his donuts right over there! Yups, this man was literally eating that man's donuts, and the "homeless" man taught him a lesson, about gift.

I obviously moved with that, and once again, judging someone isn't really a good thing in the first place.

The list keep going down. Judging someone based on their race, religion belief, etc, won't make you "more" human instead of him, or would lift your value higher than him. This concept could be danger, and would separate us in the future. And believe it's happening not only in Indonesia, but also in every country. Regionally, Nationally, or even Internationally. If only someone stop judging each other that "I am right instead of them" etc, I believe this world would be a better place to live in. Period.

Be Brave (Note to myself)

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For a moment, I was thinking about my article with "That moment you should overcome" title.

And then, something out of my mind, I thought about one thing that's currently haven't done through my life.

That moment, when I am falling in love, having crush with this girl, but always end up with no clear result, since I have no courage to tell her.

This is something I haven't overcome yet.

My soul afraid, that it would change our relationship, from friend to be the awkward one.

But then, all of my close friend told me to say it, and I need to be a man for accepting whatever results might come up. Surely I haven't ready, surely I am scared.

Yups, love could make someone the strongest man on earth. And it could make the weakest person in the world, what a mysterious energy we have! With no courage, perhaps it would be like this, and always be like this. I need power, I need strength, I need courage, to say what I feel, to tell her everything.

Charlie, charlie, charlie, give me your bravery, to overcome this one, something we called as love.

Be a man and brave, raf!

The art of not giving a fuck

00:05 rafi 2 Comments

Ah,
Since long time ago, I want to post something about this.

Things, that I used to hold up, for enjoying myself more, instead of thinking what people think about me. The art of not giving a fuck, has been learned since I used to kid. My sister, as my role model, that's been smart ass, having high IQ, but have critical thinking, always got teacher's attention, in a positive way.

People would call her tomboy, because her friends always be boys, walking around without sandals, screaming out loud to getting people's attention, yups, for selling more of our products. At first, I felt embarrassed, "What people would think about her? Don't she feel ashamed? People definitely would judge her", etc.

But no, she didn't give any fuck with that. She always does. Time keep running, I begun learnt something through her. She might not care about herself being ashamed, what she cared was getting customers, and could help my fathers more. Enough to be said, I am the one who should be ashamed tho.

In studying perspective, she had her own reasons.
"It's now or never"
Yups, she always had so many questions through her study. She asked a lot, like literally a lot, whenever teachers asked "Any question?" She's the one who would ask, and begging for answer as clear as possible. Yups, what she did was confirming, whether it's right or not, or somehow, people tend to tell she's asking stupid questions. But no, it's just a little bit complex.

Yups, since I was taking same Junior High School, no teacher didn't know her. Every time I met new teachers, they would ask me "Oh, Rina's brother ya, why aren't you active like her?" etc. Once again, she left the burden to me, I was not ready yet, and mostly observed instead of being active. And I regret it till 8th Grade. I tried to be more open, to be more active, try not giving a fuck with my friends thought
"Meh, faggot"
"Meh, sok-sok belajar"
"Meh, are you seeking attention or something?"
"Meh, anak rumah banget ya? (Meh, always playing just around your home ya?)"
etc
No no no, I'm just trying to be me, enjoying myself, "It's now or never" to learn anything from my teachers.

You know what changed? I got 2nd place in term of grade loh. And ...... Since I'm studying more, once again, I love studying! I got this feeling that I had to be success, for not being burden to my parentx, and helping my father in the future.

This art, has been thought and passed through me. Since then, I don't care what others think about me. I don't care if they tried bullying me, or telling me whatever they want. I don't care if someone had Motorcycle while me still using public transport, I don't care if my phone still polyphonic ones, whether my friends already had the smart ones. Yups, I only focused with what I HAVE instead of what I don't have. And it makes me happy tho.

It focused me through my study, I have less distraction compared with my friends. And ..... I managed to get scholarship during my High school and college terms.

So guys, let's stop giving a fuck with negative things! It's not being apathy or something, but just mind your own business and focused with it loh. I mean, they have their own problems, and we have ours also, right? Hohoho. I hope this article could inspire you and change your mind about what others think loh. It's not going to impact you a dime, if you didn't care about it.

Ganbatte!

Possible ways to seek a passion

00:00 rafi 1 Comments

Should we try to seek our Passion?

The answer is yes and no.

Yes, you could found your passion through several trials and errors doing several things.
No, because, this is something you could build by yourself, and could become your passion in the future.

Myself has been tried to do both of them. But I guess the easiest way are building your passion alone, by yourself. Why? When I was looking my passion, I tried active in several organization directly. I managed to be Entrepreneur, being CEO of Tropical Laundry, taking charge one start up to support my dormitory economically. And then, I took my part as student, which is being lecturer and severa sl practicums assistant. I also took my part as HMME Head of Research Division, doing several work with it.

I failed, I couldn't focus to do my roles, and I can't be my best to do it. Every work program were done so so, although it could be better if I could focus on. Yups, besides my bad time management, I am the one who should be blamed, not even my staff or intern at that time. I managed to answer my deep question

"Which one is better? Focus on one organization but we could do something cool with it or ..... Active in several organization, but the result is so so?"

The answer is the first one I guess.

Well, in my very last year as student, when I only focused on my dormitory as MPA or People's Consultative Assembly, managed one work program (getting pensions money for our employees), also as guardian of value. I'm just being one practicum assistant, and taking only several credits. My point is, my activity is not that much lah. Since I am feeling that it's not myself, I create one social project called DCME, which is educating local societies in Pulosari, and create route map IF disaster happened back then. Yups, thanks to my team, we managed do it successfully, achieved and exceed our main target. On that phase, I learned that the art of "Giving" isn't always about matters or money, but as simple as sharing your knowledge to others, and being useful by implementing what you learned is truly a gift. I was moved and thought it's probably "Ore no nindo da" (read: It's my ninja way) haha :p

After that, I was chosen as Regional Ambassador of Tunza, doing several social project, and wrote report about it. Yups, once again I learned, writing is truly cool. I found lots of dedicating persons, that's already doing something really big to their societies, and managed to INSPIRE others within their articles. I always try my best to share what I knew and what I've done so far. And I love it. In this term, I found that writing might be my greatest strength to inspire and encourage people. Even I could highlight my campaign through an article, right?

During my Ambassador terms, I also created YFCA, as my very first organization. Yups, once again, we managed to do 4 social projects, in which, keep focusing on our goals to increase awareness about environment, especially Climate Change. I learned about myself so much, that I should be more optimistic leader instead of the pessimist one, keep focusing and move straight to reach goals, do not hesitate to take charge in decision making. Moreover, if it could change the whole planned at the first place. I thought it would be better if we stepped back from the plan, and I wrong, thanks to kurtiks that keep reminding about these stuffs. And once I again, I learned,

"it's always seems impossible until it's done"

Yups, to summarize this article, I suggest you guys to focus on one or two roles, instead of taking all charges. Determined which one should be your priority, and in line with your current goals. Passion could be found in several ways, but building your own is the most effective one for sure, since you already knew what you're doing, and how to enhance it.

Once again, thanks for reading it and hope it could inspire you guys!

Love always,
Rafi