Big Bad Wolf 2018 - Se-worthy itu kah?


Gaes !

Baru aja kemarin gue habis balik berpetualang di Big Bad Wolf (BBW) 2018. Jadi acara pameran buku 280 jam non-stop ini, sudah dibuka sejak 29 Maret 2018. Nah kebetulan, gue dan teman-teman baru mau meng-eksplor di hari Sabtu, biar ga kecapean hehehehe.

Lantas, bagaimana pengalamannya? Worthy ga?

Hmmmm, akan gue kupas tuntas disini ya. Hohoho.

Baiq.

Sebenarnya gue udah tau acara ini sejak lama banget. Waktu kuliah. Temen gue, yang berdomisili depok dan Bandung, selalu update terkait ini. Doi emang penggemar BBW sejak dulu, dan doi yang bercerita, bahwa BBW tuh surganya nerdy, ataupun orang tua sayang anak, dalam urusan pembelanjaan dan pemenuhan kebutuhan literasi anak! Iya, Tbh, 60-80% konten bukunya emang ditargetkan ke anak-anak sih. Namun, bukan berarti buku-buku untuk orang dewasannya kurang. Tidaq sama sekali.

Oke.

Kali ini, gue bertekad harus bisa hadir. Jarak kami sudah sangat dekat, tidak lagi terpisah oleh ratusan km jalan tol. Jadi, tidak ada excuse untuk tidak hadir ya.

Belum lagi, kebutuhan buku gue sudah habis. Buku gue tinggal 1, dan itu udah mau rampung, sisanya udah kebaca semua. Ingat, target 1 buku 1 bulan, harus kecapai. Belakangan emang udah sempat punya rencana untuk ke Periplus atau Book and Beyond, surganya buku Impor. Ya, as you knew, ku taq suka buku terjemahan. Kurang dapat feelnya, jadi ya mau buku yang asli weh tulisannya, barrier kesalahan penulisan dan terjemahan juga dapat dielakkan.

Sip.

Ternyata BBW datang menghampiri kan, yasudah lets give it a try. Dengan kocek yang gaboleh lebih dari se-juta. Ku harus dapat buku banyak. Target hidup harus terpenuhi!

Akupun mulai me-list buku apa saja yang aku mau. Buku-buku target berikutnya, ga jauh dari bacaan terkait Influence, Business Strategy, Decision Making, and how to be problem solver sih :p
1. The influence - The psychology of Persuasion
2. Angela Duckworth - Grit: The power of passio and preverence
3. Ray Dalio - Principles: Life and Work
4. Vaynerchuk - Crushing it!
5. W Chan Kim - Blue Ocean Strategy
6. Richard Rumelt - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
7. Olivia Fox Cabane - The Charisma Myth : How anyone can master the art and science of personal magnetism
8. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, fast and slow
9. Chip and Dan Heath - Decisive
10. Carl Spetzler - Decision Quality: Value Creation from Better Business Decision

Namun, satu hal yang perlu kalian catet, do not stick with your list. Karena sulit banget nyari buku terkait di BBW. Bahkan, ku tidak menemukan semua yang sudah ku-list. Hahaha. Antara belum keliling banget, atau emang tidak ada.

1. Suasana


Bagaimana suasana disana? 

Hal yang perlu kalian tahu, gue dan temen-temen datang ke tempat di jam 2-an lah. Ini hari Sabtu! Nah, setelah memesan Grabcar, kita juga sempet ngobrol sama mba-mba drivernya. Doi bilang, doi udah ke International Convention Exhibition - BSD 4 kali. Tapi doi bilang, dibandingkan tahun lalu, masih kalah rame tahun sekarang sih. *Dalam hati* "Alhamdulillah".

Setelah sampai di tempat, emang benar, keadaan masih sangat terkontrol. Sangat berbeda jauh dengan kondisi Tanah Abang dengan mayoritas emak-emak ingin tempat duduk. Tidaq, disini jauh lebih beradab. Heuheu.

Ku tidak terlalu sempat foto sih. Jadi kira-kira gini lah gambaran suasananya, plus lebih crowded dikit. Hehe

Source: Now Jakarta
Oke.

2. Kelengkapan Buku


Hmmmm, terkait kelengkapan buku, jelas gabisa nyaingin Toko Buku pada umumnya yah, soalnya kan ini targetnya juga gede banget. Belum lagi ..... Kalo untuk gue yang tertariknya sama Non-Fiksi, dengan genre Business, Economic & Self Development, jadi ya gitu. Ternyata semua list gue kan ga ada. Tapi .... dapat tergantikan dengan buku-buku lain. Intinya, jangan menutup diri kalo dirimu harus dapatin buku-buku yang di-list itu!

"Nah, raf, gimana ceritanya kita tahu buku yang kita lihat bagus?"

OMG, dengan kekuatan smartphone yang lo pegang, that's definitely enough! Pedoman yang gue pegang simply Goodreads + Amazon.com! Gue percaya sih manusia-manusia di Amazon.com itu soalnya kebanyakan nerdy juga. Apalagi orang-orang yang mau baca buku Business boleh diakuilah. So, gue pake 2 aplikasi ini buat cek review dan rating! Hal pertama adalah rating. Rating harus diatas 4, gaboleh kurang. Dengan jumlah review >30an sudah oke sih. Beberapa buku yang gue beli ber-rating 5 dengan review > 30an juga. Menurut gue itu udah sangat mendukung apakah buku yang gue pilih, bagus atau ga. Hehehehe.

"Sip, noted. Bagaimana dengan buku genre lain?"

Hmmmm, dari gue sendiri ada beli beberapa buku Biography sih. Kalo di part Sejarah juga keliatan menarik, tapi ga cukup menarik hati gue untuk beli itu. Ada juga buku-buku Young Adults, isinya novel cinti-cinti :") Tapi gue merasa udah ga genre gue lagi hahahaha. Jadi ya ga gue beli sih haha. Kalo lengkap atau ga-nya, kayaknya cukup lengkap sih, dari Novel-novel ala-ala The Hobbits, ataupun novel-novel remaja juga banyak sih. Tergantung selera aja!

3. Food Corner


Sip, terkait Food Corner/ Food Court nya sih dari w cukup oke. Barang belanjaan gaboleh dibawa kesana, jadi keranjang ditinggal diluar. Janlup buat kasih penanda keranjang sih. Kalo gue karena ada barangnya si Ferdi beliin untuk ponakannya, jadi gue tandai pake Buku itu, ditambah buku bisnis gue. Kombinasi yg sangat jarang sepertinya.

Terkait makan, kalian perlu pake Kartu yang mereka sediakan. Di top-up di kasir makanan, dan nanti kalo udah dibeliin, sisanya simply di-refund aja.

Terus, disini gue top-up 100K kan untuk Ferdi juga berdua. Nah .... waktu kami mau beli makan, gue sih mau coba Ayam Geprek yang spesial weh, harganya 50K sama telur. Si Ferdi kan ngikut w, terus yaudah kan ternyata gabisa, jadi sepertinya harus ada sisa kredit, gabisa 0 banget hehe. Intinya, survey dulu makanan yg kalian inginkan, terus top-up dengan uang berlebih. Toh nanti bisa di-refund. Soal rasa, ayam geprek kami enak sihh, cuman pedes banget haha.

Catatan tambahan, please bring your own water here. Karena lumayan mehong untuk air mineral sih. Tapi jangan minum waktu keliling dekat buku loh, bisa basah ntar.

4. Pembayaran


Oke. Waktu tidak terasa berlalu begitu cepat loh. Gasadar udah 3 jam keliling-keliling sih gue. Akhirnya memutuskan untuk menyudahi perburuan ini. Kenapa? Hmmmm, karena jika semakin malam semakin padat, belum lagi, bisa-bisa semakin banyak list buku yang mau w beli.

Nah, di Instagram sendiri, w menemukan 1 hal, ada promo dari XL untuk bebas antri. W approach lah si XL ini kan. Ternyata setelah w tanya-tanya. Syarat utamanya adalah:
1. Pake myXL
2. Pake Xtra Combo
3. Punya sisa Combo di 3GB.

Karena paket w sudah mau habis, w sempat tergiur untuk beli. Eh, ternyata, ada kuota perkuarternya gitu :( Baru buka lagi jam 7 malem katanya. Yasudah w akhirnya ga jadi. Kita pun memutuskan untuk ngantri saja deh.

Ternyata ......

Antriannya ga terlalu jauh, yey!

Jadi beda sama tahun lalu, jumlah kasir ada 60-an, jadi antrian ga begitu panjang. Gue cuman antri 1 orang juga koks. Alhamdulillah, ternyata ga perlu dateng subuh-subuh juga ya. Karena di siang ke malam pun tidak begitu rame antriannya.

Hanya saja, kadang w juga bingung kenapa ada orang yang sampe beli se-keranjang. Berkoper-koper. Yang w liat, banyak orang tua yang sudah mulai melek akan kebutuhan literasi anak-anaknya. Jadi ortu disini beneran spend so much money for their child's future lah which is good. Mungkin gue akan menjadi seperti mereka kelak, demi mempengaruhi pertumbuhan otak dan kreativitas anak melalui games-games seru, serta cerita-cerita yang dapat dibaca oleh anak kelak! Count me in for this community ya!

5. Bonus BBW 2018


Setelah selesai dengan perkara pembayaran, ternyata waktu mau jalan keluar, kita bisa donasi buku juga loh buat mereka yang membutuhkan. Terus ..... ada juga poster yang dibandrol dengan harga 99K per-poster. Perhaps next year ku bakal beli lah 1. Unfortunately saat ini ku benar-benar krismon haha. Terakhir, ada juga pameran lukisan karya-karya orang loh. Ada apa aja? ini dia!

Adik ini karyanya kece-kece pisan euy! (Dokumentasi Pribadi, Sebuah Seni di BBW 2018)

Dokumentasi Pribadi, Sebuah Seni di BBW 2018

Dokumentasi Pribadi, Sebuah Seni di BBW 2018

Dokumentasi Pribadi, Sebuah Seni di BBW 2018

Dokumentasi Pribadi, Sebuah Seni di BBW 2018
Tak lupa, penulis juga foto-foto disini :))

Bersama Yetty

Sang Penggemar Pahlawan Super!

Abstract, dan malah menutupi seninya :"
Hohohoho.

Kesimpulan


Baiklah, untuk menutup tulisan ini, gue akan memberi testimoni dan perhitungan keuntungan yes.

Jadi, gue udah hitung-hitung nih harga buku-buku yang gue beli dibandingkan sama harga yang ada di Toko Buku langganan gue. Tanpa menjatuhkan kedua belah pihak, gue purely hanya sebagai konsumen yang memberikan testimoni. Karena in the end, semua punya plus minusnya. Misalnya, kalo di Toko Buku, jelas gue bisa milih langsung target buku gue, tanpa perlu repot cari-cari buku serupa dengan cari review terbagus, kan? 

Sip.

Berdasarkan perhitungan gue. Jika beli via Amazon ataupun Toko buku langganan gue, 9 buku yang gue beli di sekitar 3 Juta rupiah loh. Tapi, in the end gue hanya bayar hanya 626K. Dengan kata lain, diskon yang gue dapat sekitar 79% in Total :") Iya, gue waktu nge-list ini juga rasa-rasanya mau nangis, karena berasa worthy bgt. Jadi keinget beli 3 buku dengan harga 750K itu berasa ..... Kantong menipis, namun untuk pengetahuan mah ngga ada harganya :p



Siyap.

Gimana-gimana, kalo ada buku yang aneh, emang w anaknya sukanya yg realita aja, ga suka Fiksi wkwk. 2 Buku terakhir ntar w kasih untuk adik w yang lagi w coba bangun budaya membacanya. Bismillah!

Bagaimana gaes? Sudah siap untuk hadir ke BBW 2018? Tinggal 9 hari lagi loch! Semangat

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Rafi is an ENFP person who seek every chance to develop his surrounding in professional ways. Slowly turning himself as a geek reader, spending his time at least 2 hour a day to read any article/ books with specific target.

Currently being Customer Analyst in elevenia, still counted as Fresh Graduate and still learning to be the best one. Interested in Leadership, Management, Economic, Big Data, Data Science, and Meteorology-geek stuff.

3 ways to avoid procrastinate


pro·cras·ti·nate
prəˈkrastəˌnāt/
verb
  1. delay or postpone action; put off doing something.

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Source: BrainyQuote by Mason Cooley

Procrastinate is one of bad habits that human used to have to avoid doing things. Mostly have it, but things what I knew, highly performance person won't ever do it. Time is too precious to be wasted, and it's not their way to do so. 

Like almost everyone, I sometimes do the same things. Procrastinate is fun, till you felt regret just scrolling down Instagram/ facebook's feed for one or two hours, and you can't get this back. At least, that's what I felt yesterday. I stay up late till 2 AM, and sleep till 11 AM, having late breakfast, do my online-course for 1 hours, end-up sleeping 3 more hours cause the weather felt so nice. I regret it a lot :( I can't reach my goals that day, and that was the worst day I have, cause I didn't productive at all. Hate it.

I promise to myself, I will change this tomorrow. Which means today. I planning what I am going to do, and I do it anyway.

A new way I try, is moving my body around. Not staying on my bed, and go to anywhere, that I googling a nice place to be alone. I got several names, and end-up here, on Reading Room, Kemang.

It really does a nice place. Whenever I came here, around 11.30 AM, I am the only customer, and I smell the old bookshelf, which I love it so much. Lots of books and stuff.

But, the thing is, I don't want to read book here. Because, I have my own goals. 

1. Finished Intermediate Python for Data Science (datacamp). 

Been writing this on my deadline this week. And should accomplish this one. Data science been my focused lately, since it's really nice to learn a new things. And soon enough, we'll have our own data science platform for the analytics. And I need to prepare this from now. Starting my course on datacamp, and learning it through new projects, that would be developed soon.

2. Learn new online-course I bought. 

I just bought a new online course, about writing your blog end-to-end, from setting things up, and make the quality content for this, and perhaps, could generate money soon. I got a wake-up call from my friend, that's been building his blog right now. And because of this, I want to take this one seriously. How to make this passion became a real deal. For my life, for my audience, with intent to influence people from what I wrote, and make it more enjoyable. Let's put monetizing things on the middle of my priority ya.

Ok. What should we do?

Simple.

Source: Quotescover by Margaret Thatcher

1. Plan your schedule


In this free time, what are you going to do about it? Are you going to waste it just like that? Or, maybe you can do something better, such as blogging, came to seminar or meetup, doing volunteer, and any positive activities you may think. It's all about choice. Your choice does matter. Even though it's not going to do something in the short term, think about long-term, ya? Let say if you do the online course, while your friends just hanging around, wasting their time with -not so quality- topic. If you do it consistently, in 1 month, perhaps you have done 1 course, with a new perspective of life. While your friends? Well, you decide lah.

I am not telling you should learn every single hour, no, even doing so won't make your body healthier. From what I learned on High Performance Habit, you may have your body and thought a rest. So a little game/ entertain can cover that. Let say you will have 1 hour break for playing game. That's obviously oke. What makes it harder if you didn't plan your schedule at all. This is where procrastinating can happen. You might not aware until you literally lost your precious time. Time that could be 20 pages worth reading/ 5 online course videos/ 1 blog post, would be wasted and can't take it back. 

How'd you do it? Plan your schedule 1 week before. I've been doing this for 2 weeks (after reading High Performance Habit's book), and I could avoid unnecessarily procrastinate. At least my weekly goals can be maintained. And things been really well so far.

Even if you read this in the middle of the week. Just take a moment for planning for this week! It's obviously oke, and just don't wait till tomorrow! If you do it, that's what you called procrastinating!

Source: Pinterest by Emily Bibb

2. Just do it already


Well, another thing I just learn. I used to be overthinking person. For example, what should I do, how could I go there, is it too far? What if I took busway, how many hour it will take? How's the weather? Is it too hot? and the list keep go on. 

Suddenly I remember one article/book about "5 seconds rule", before you thinking any excuse for doing something, just do it already. 5 seconds is enough to distract you doing something. And you won't want that at all. That's how I determine to take gojek instead of busway, and promised myself to take busway on the way going home. See? My body can't resist procrastinate ya. And it's your thought that will fight it. Use this simple rule, and you'll be ok.

Source: Pinterest by David Gruder

3. Stick to your schedule


Ah, on the weekend, insisting your thought to think more especially for the programming one. This might make exhausting, right? 

"Chill up dude" you may say. 

But words had been said. And promised should be kept. That's what I believe. Haha

During my "me" time, I focused to achieve my goal first. Finishing datacamp, learn online course, design 1 personal project for the next 2 weeks, and write 1 post for my blog. I set up plan these 6 hours should be enough. There is a time when I feel stressed, and checking my instagram feed. And just like that, I told my self to focused on this schedule. It's just about time, I could enjoy more time watching Insidious soon, but my goals should be done first. I put down my phone. Only check it for 5 minutes to update what I did and what I thought. Put it down again, repeat. At least this helps me a lot.

It's only you who can control what you're doing. It's not your father, it's not your brother, it's only you. And that's what matter the most. When you can control this, you can grab what you want anytime soon. Just wait and see, and believe.

During this time also, I found one thing precious. 

I just read one article about "Paid Mentorship" actually can make you bring more values. He said whenever you paid more, you'll think and feel it more precious. And this will insist you to do, learn, and take everything more during the program. And of course, this will lead you to give more time during your Mentorship. I somehow, could connect this one with my current condition, because in this place I didn't pay cheaply. So my time is so precious in this place. While I could get the fast internet right here, whenever I'm checking my phone, I would think about check I will pay this time. And tbh, it could be one more motivation you can get.

Conclusion


Procrastinate is a bad habit you should overcome. If you want to change, you might consider your "old" self, before and after you banish this habit. You might feel more productive, you'll have more free time, because you already done your responsible in a good way and manner, and this free time could be used for learning more, or simply refreshing yourself.

To do so, you may do these 3 things to be your habits. First you need to plan your schedule. Even for someone like me, who didn't really like tight schedule at all, felt it really does important to do so. Because it'll give you more clarity for what you're going to do at least for one period of time. Second, you need to remember 5 seconds rule, about thinking what you're going to do next. Before you're going to overthink anything, Just do it already. Last but not least, during this schedule, you must commit for what you have written. It's the battle for fighting with yourself, and it's actually the greatest enemy for the humanity. If you can win this, believe me you'll be happy about it, and you can learn anything more, faster, and apply more things in your life.

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Rafi is an ENFP person who seek every chance to develop his surrounding in professional ways. Slowly turning himself as a geek reader, spending his time at least 2 hour a day to read any article/ books with specific target.

Currently being Customer Analyst in elevenia, still counted as Fresh Graduate and still learning to be the best one. Interested in Leadership, Management, Economic, Big Data, Data Science, and Meteorology-geek stuff.

Like to read this one? Kindly please like, share, and recommend this article to help the author more ya. Looking forward your feedback every single day!

Transforming Thyself with simple habits


(Source: Pinterest)

It's possible.

One sentence that's already summed up my life for the last 3 month.

I have started my reading habit in the middle of December 2017. I gave half of my Entertainment money buying 2 books at least, to be read during my holiday. One bucket-list was Elon Musk, recommended by my friend (that I met on International conference, been writing a lot, and her articles is really good in quality). Yups, in simple words, I trust her.

Why'd Elon Musk? Tbh, reading a lot about him on Quora, basically he's really genius, right? Since colleague, lots of my friends, that has Engineering background, really admired him a lot. Yups, that's enough made me interested for someone's life! Until .... my friend told me, this book is really about him, talking about his childhood, and his journey from 1 company to another.

"WHAT? His Childhood?! I am sold!" Told myself.

I am that person, who didn't really believe someone's born Genius. Oke, there might be 2% who really are. So? What next? Did they do something great? Is that really the only factor? I don't think so.

So yeah, whenever it comes to his biography, take me in! I want to know more! Take me right over there to his life! Haha

Doesn't mean it should start tomorrow. Act now! (Source: Pinterest)

1. Choice

 

Oke, things have been determined. These life should be changed. Thanks to Quora honestly, I read lots of insightful thought back then. Have life changing ones, that pushed me to do something good. Why'd reading? I forgot where I found this ya, but I have read about 10.000 rules. If you want to be really good at something, you need to have effort, at least 10.000 hours doing that thing.

"But ..... I want to learn anything! I want to be datascience, I want to be marketeers, I want to be executor, I want to be good at statistical, thinking logically, solving problem faster, etc. Should I gave 10.000 hours for this?"

The answer is yes and no. 10.000 hours might be the one, but we do have a choice, we do have shortcuts. One of them? Read as many as books you can, online learning, search expertise mentor, etc.

I chose reading books. The factor? Well, I'm going to be honest with you. Recently I found lots of inspiring people. Most of them Indonesian, and have done something really big both for country and their company. I'm speechless. I keep seeing them, observing them, "What makes them so extraordinary?". One of them? Really a nerd, a bookworm. Yups, even with a tight schedule, he read a lot.

Thats enough to convince me tho. Reading might be the answer. I should try this one.

I will focus on reading and online course. I separated my time for both of them. Trial and error, to know which one is better.

I went to Periplus. Simply because I want imported books, I don't like the translated one because I'm not really fans the standard language especially Bahasa. I got BC (2.5 out of 4 score) in my college, and always got not more than 80 when I was in Senior High School.

Oke, I take Elon Musk, and during the search found another one, I can't avoid this, it's just like, myself want me to buy this no matter what. My choice was for "High Performance Habits" by Brandon Burchard. And I bought it anyway.

Here it is. I am ready to change myself. Everything would begin here. Here we go!

Luv! Exactly what I thought. This is what you called as Commitment! (Source: everydaypowerblog.com)

2. Commit

 

What's next? The books been bought, should be read, workload remain the same. So? Scheduled your time! Yups, I read lots of habit article, especially for making our "New Year Resolution" not being "January Resolution" and stuff. Most article told me to write down everything. What's my goal? Write! How can I achieve it? Write! When should I do it? Write! Everything should be written, and committed. Simple. Everyday, I wrote my Most Important Things (MIT). And reading (with minimum pages) + online course (with minimum hours) would be my everyday MIT. Wrote it on my computer's sticky notes, so every time I close or open my laptop, I could see it and do it.

Oke. You know, whenever you have your "new" resolution, at first you'll have the energy to do so, right? How long it would stay that way? Well, actually it depends on your commitment. For me, I told myself to do so. If I am too lazy to read that day, haven't met my minimum goals, I told myself "If you can do it yesterday, why'd not today?". Take a breath, speak to yourself. Continue. And that's what you called commitment.

Source: Pinterest (etsy.com)

3. Applied

 

The longer I read, the longer I learn. Reading is simply mindblowing. Can't believe, someone could have that way of Life. Things that I was thinking "Insane" and made me giggling every single time I read that. Let's take a sample of Merry Riana's life, one of top Indonesian Motivator, that's converting herself from Engineer to be the Salesperson. Everyone thought she's insane tho, I mean, she had that B.Eng of Electrical Engineering, living on Singapore and got a job? That might be huge opportunities, right? And she changed that, she pushed herself a lot, targeting herself everyday and achieved what she's been targeted for the long term. Her sales to leadership experiences mostly insane.

And that's how I learned leadership and sales from her. Reading does open my mind to the broadest, and maintain my imagination through the boundary/ layers that seems deep and impossible to reach, but can be broken!

Applying what you have read does important. Besides reading book, I keep reading Quora/ Medium's article that's extremely insightful. I apply several of them. For example parento principle, when you gave only 20% of your effort to achieve 80% of goals (or can be applied with anything I guess), breaking 10.000 Hours rules just like what I'm doing now (having shortcuts to achieve things!), 5 seconds rules to made you avoid procrastinate, and several Habits from "High Performance Habits" to maintain my clarity, energy, and necessity. I do what I could do to improve myself. And looking forward to it!

4. Result and Conclusion

 

Well, what's the result, raf?

I am not going to say it's been perfect, but, it really could be perfected. My old habit is fading away. Yups, called that Procrastinate and hard to focus habits should be faded asap. For the last 2.5 month, I have read countless articles (about 4 - 5 articles a day), finished 2 business course (one of them should take at least 12 hours to be finished), 1 datacamp course, and 3 books (The Four, Elon Musk, Merry Riana), otw to the 4th book, High Performance Habits!

For some people, it might be not-so-accomplished to be celebrated, right? But it's worth to be written, and once again, as a writer, I hope I could inspire others even more. Just like the first sentence. It's possible, it's possible to change yourself, it's possible to transform your habit and begin achieve things. It's possible to fade that bad habits, and try to live your life at its fullest. It's not perfect yet, and I believe it could be improved slowly by applying things I have learned during this Journey.

And that's the end of this article
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PS.
I am not really celebrating tho, read one article, that celebrating small things were not that good, and might affect your way of life to achieve things.

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Rafi is an ENFP person who seek every chance to develop his surrounding in professional ways. Slowly turning himself as a geek reader, spending his time at least 2 hour a day to read any article/ books with specific target.

Currently being Customer Analyst in elevenia, still counted as Fresh Graduate and still learning to be the best one. Interested in Leadership, Management, Economic, Big Data, Data Science, and Meteorology-geek stuff.

Like to read this one? Kindly please like, share, and recommend this article to help the author more ya. Looking forward your feedback every single day!

Early Stage Leadership - What I have learned so far in 2 months



Source: Integrity and Leadership Quotes

Have you got any chance to lead someone? Yes, I have.

I took this offer from my GM, to lead 3 apprentices and 1 intern so far, together with my colleague from Advance Analytics. For me, this is a really good opportunity to develop myself further and beyond. If you have read my story from the very beginning, you might know I used to lead someone through Volunteering or any social project, but this one is really different. I should act in the professional ways, to develop them more advance in analytics world.

One of main reason why I take this offer also, I want to lighten-up my confidence as a leader. Since I graduate, I'm not really touched this leadership activity, except managing my flow of work as analyst, mentored by my GM and team lead, also being a part-time mentor for my 2 beloved brothers (that's currently enrolled as university student and junior high school). This opportunity, would be my best chance to learn leadership directly, from designing the Apprentice program, and execute them once and for all.

So far, taking role as leader has been an eye-opening moment for me. The first two things I learned, being a leader is not only thinking about yourself. There's always more reason from that. You're not only thinking about get things done more faster, but how could you develop their hard and soft-skills. At least in this analytic world, especially in Customer Analytic division, we should be able data-wrangling, exploring, and crunching it, and of course, these data would be analyzed deeply to answer the business questions even more. In other words, we need to assure our apprentice could get all of the exposure, from getting the data, analyze, visualize, explain/present, and give the recommendation to improve the business even more.

My colleague and me, design a full package curriculum, to cover all of these. This is an early stage of my leadership journey and I love it so much.

Example of Apprentice Curriculum Design

1. Designing Data and Advance Analytics apprentice program


Oke, the first step to do is simply designing the apprentice curriculum from scratch. For those who's wondering "Why'd from scratch? Don't you have any reference before, since you graduated from this program, right?". The answer is .... Because at my apprentice term, my GM and the Team Leader did not really have any particular curriculum, they just develop us their way. I do understand that, since they already have great and decade experiences to develop a person. 

Despite this, from my point of view, curriculum is necessary, since it's going to make a program easier and have a real purpose. If we forgot something, or simply want to give what kind of project they are going to develop next, this curriculum could be a guidance for us. 

So, how's the process?

The first thing to do is googling. I mean, who doesn't, right? Simply searching "Apprentice curriculum program" also "Data Science apprentice program" and stuff, to get the draft what's important to be included in this guidance. Mixed them up.

From several articles or books, the first thing to do is defining the situation.

So, at first, I define the situation. Simply by knowing my Apprentice major background & CV could be huge advantage, define what kind of person they are, and at what level they're in right now. Next, I should define what standard need to be met during the program, at what level they will be developed, and what skillset they should have after the program. We want to assure, their skills can be huge advantage in the future, since they're our future analyst, the best investment for our resource. Last but not least, I define what capabilities my apprentice would have after the program. Similar with the standard, but more focused and detail. Of course these were the initiate goals, and could be added during or in the middle of the program. Here's what I've defined:

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To make it simple
1. What kind of person we faced?
- Fresh graduate from Statistic background
- Already had experienced in term of Data Analytics (at least on college level)

2. What standard need to be met?
- Advance business acumen
- Complex problem solving
- Have completed skillset of data analyst, including Excel (Pivot, Functions, Text and column manipulation) and SQL
- Have completed skillset of presentation skill including design effective powerpoint & communicate the insight

3. What capabilities apprentice should have after apprenticeship?
- Able to collect, organize, and study complex and unstructured data from different resources
- Able to answer BAU and complex business questions
- Able to understand elevenia business operation end-to-end
- Doing pricing analytics to support business team in terms of promotion
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After defining this, developing the apprentice program is a piece of cake. You just need to align with Team's 2018 future project or timeline, and assure every program would enrich apprentice's knowledge and skills when they do it. Plus, my colleague  and me also put several projects we have done during our program last year, what's good should be perfected, and the perfect one should be maintained. One example is Google Analytics exploration. This could be good for our apprentice's portfolio, and of course, could be used to update our team's knowledge to explore GA even more. I remembered, at the moment I explore this, I learned a lot from someone's article, and how useful GA could be, to possibly maintain the KPI of company. 

Source: Quotesurf.com

2. Executing Curriculum


Designing curriculum after working hours, take 1-2 hours a day to explore and googling, and think about the program was really exciting stuff! After sketching, designing, and creating the apprenticeship curriculum, present it to our GM and approved. Here comes the best part, executing the program. Every week, they would have the project they should explore, create the ppt, and present. Presentation should be conducted in English. Why? Simply we want to encourage them speaking in English. At first, they were shocked, and I gave them no choice but presenting in English. We told them it's a good opportunity, to break their comfort zone, move further and beyond. Even though in our daily live we speak Bahasa, I bet, one day they will be right over there, perhaps they will work on International companies, consultant, or simply being speaker for something big. And this presentation skills, would be their advantages, right?

What I found interesting, of course during the process, sometimes there is a small detail I missed, and the apprentice didn't ask anything about that. During the presentation, my GM would give the advice to them for "Asking Why" or simply know the objective of every task we gave. For analyst, simple question "Why" or "What's the goal" and stuff, can be eye-opening and make Analyst life easier. At one side, analyst could ease their data exploration, and transform it to be what user want, and generate insightful analysis and recommendation for the user. I noted to my self, and apprentice learned what they should learn. Both side wins.

One thing for sure, what makes a leader happy, is seeing their peers developed day by day. I remembered when our apprentice do their first task, about aptitude test of analyst. We want to know, at what level their pivoting and business skills. They're not confident enough, and apologize a lot. I told them "It's okay, they will use to about it, and they will be better day by day for this stuff.". They accept, and keep struggling more, and do it better day by day. Their confidence level is also getting better and better, their presentation is keep improved both in design and presenting, and their business and SQL skills also getting better. And I personally happy about it :)

Source: Path

3. Evaluate


There's a time, when you have a deadline, but your apprentice have done their job as well. That job should be checked and validated, and as analyst, you might check their script as well, to assure what they have developed right or not. The art of leadership is here. You need to spare time for them, even though you have your own task to do. Sometimes it costs my work time, but checking and appreciating their work is important as well. I have done it for the last 2 month, if it happens, what I am going to do is scheduling at what time I will check them out. Sometimes it's only take 10-30 minutes, but if they created hundreds of slides? It could cost me more than 1 hour. The thing is, you need to remember, being a leader is also a commitment, we're not talking about "Me, myself, and I", but "Us, Ourselves, and We" instead.

Evaluate also happened every week, when our apprentice present their own research. In the end of session, me as a moderator, would ask the audience (from another CA Team members) whether they had any comments or advice for the contents that's just presented. Next, I would ask them if they have any advice to our apprentice personally. This session always end-up in positive way. Lots of gratitude, appreciate, and a lil bit reminder what they should do and check next time. This process often be my personal reminder, since this is the place where all of CA team used to gather every week. And I believe, everyone could learn something during this presentation and evaluation. Once again both sides win.

Conclusion


Leadership process is fun, as fresh graduate, if you have a chance to lead, just grab it fast. I know in this term (moreover as Fresh graduate), we should develop the hardskill to make our job easier, but if you think about this even further, this can be moved and grabbed together, and it's just a matter of how you manage your time well.

Leadership is a process where both sides could win. Your subordinates might feel they're developed, but the process -indirectly- develop you as well personally. The process giving the advice might be your self-reminder, the process comments/ asking question/ sharing the ideas, might as well gave you sense of communicating better, to assure your messages could be heard and understand by your peers. And of course, leadership is a fun thing to do while working here.

Apprentice presentation to know ecommerce better
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Thanks for your time reading this, if you have any feedback, do not hesitate to leave the comment below, I would love hearing that to make my content even better in the future. Once again, thank you and have a nice day!
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Petualangan di Perpustakaan Nasional RI


Ah, long week-end!

Tidak ada hari yang lebih membosankan bagi seorang perantau selain libur long-weekend! Kenapa? Karena ga ada yang bisa dikerjakan selain ...... Makan, tidur, movie marathon, baca buku, kembali makan, tidur, and the circle goes on :")

Yups, hal ini yang gue rasakan minggu ini. Literally ga ngerjain apa-apa selain blogging, baca buku, dan nonton. Masalahnya, ingin sekali jalan-jalan keluar. Namun, keadaan ekonomi sedang sulit, dan ini akhir bulan haha. Jadilah fix gue stay di kosan doang huhuhuhu.

Okeh.

Jadi, di hari Sabtu gue udah mulai memutuskan untuk baca buku yang udah lama gue beli. Judulnya "High Performance Habit". To be honest, gue suka kok sama impressi-nya, dan cukup banyak juga yang dijanjikan oleh penulis, apa aja yang bisa kita dapat. Gue mulai eksplor Sabtu Malam, sembari gue selingi nonton Pitch Perfect 3 yang udah HD, yey!

Nah, keadaan memaksa gue untuk bergadang juga. Karena adik gue, si Fikri, pulang hari Sabtu malam, pakai maskapai kesayangan, si Singa, dan ..... DELAY HAMPIR 3 JAM. OMG, untung murah :") Bahkan, hampir banget si Singa mau delay ke angka 4 jam. Tapi tahulah orang Batak, langsung keluar yang ada di dalam celana itu, gebrak meja dsb. Akupun juga gitu, kubilang sama si Fikri, klen jangan mau ngalah, enak kali si lontong itu delay pesawat.

Skip.

Akhirnya, gue lanjut deh baca sampe bener2 BAB 1 itu 26 halaman selesai. Bukunya gedenya sama kayak The Four, tapi untuk ukuran font dan jarak word juga minim, jadi emang cukup takes time lah baca buku  itu. Inti dari buku ini adalah, High Performance itu ga selamanya karena "it" factor, atau genetika, atau emang udah jalannya. No, that's old school excuse! Everyone can be extraordinary, dengan melakukan Habit-habit penting yang dia perkenalkan. In general, it's all about Seek Clarity, Generate Energy, Raise Necessity, Increase Productivity, Develop Influence, and Demonstrate Courage. Untuk lebih lengkapnya, kalian bisa cek website, atau langsung baca bukunya ya :p

Ada part dalam buku, yang meminta gue untuk menyelesaikan Bab II dan III dalam 1 hari. Menurut penulis, isinya sih gabanyak. Eh waktu gue cek, kurang lebih sih 65 Halaman. Haha

Baiq.

Challenge Accepted!

Now what? Baiklah, gue udah komitmen sama diri gue, untuk nyelesaikan nih buku by Today. Pada akhirnya, gue tidur jam setengah 3 malam, dan bangun jam 9 pagi. Setelah menyelesaikan segala urusan pagi dari Daily Workout, sarapan, pooping, dan Mandi, gue pun bertanya ke Netizen, dimana tempat yang cocok untuk menyendiri dan menghabiskan waktu untuk BACA. Banyak netizen yang menyarankan gue coba Reading Room, Kemang. Awalnya tertarik, namun coba cek di Zomato sih, especially untuk harga Menu. Dan ..... me memutuskan untuk urung diri, karena dirasa harga makanan sepersekian harga buku. Yaps, inilah yang dinamakan DILAN-da akhir bulan!

Okeh, 1 netizen, bang Oji, menyarankan gue untuk coba Perpustakaan Nasional. Dude, gue ganyangka ada tempat begini yang buku di hari Minggu loh :") So happy.

Setelah cek tutupnya jam berapa dan terlihat tutup jam 4. Ku tetap mau coba, siapa tahu cocok, kan?

Baiq.

Terus? Langsung wara-wiri pesen gojek deh buat kesini. Next time, gue kayaknya mau pakai Transjakarta aja, karena ada deket Halte Busway. Harusnya sih ga ribet, karena bener-bener tinggal lurus weh dari Karet ke Sarinah ke Monas. Mungkin dari sini w bisa sekalian jalan sikit kan.

Sip, setelah sampai, w disambut dengan ini.

Gerbang Perpustakaan Nasional RI, Quite Edgy :3
Okeh.

Terus gue cek kan, impresi pertama gue adalah gedung tua di depan ini, "Apakah perpustakaan nasional sekecil ini?" me, being narrow minded.

Ganyangka, waktu  gue masuk, gue langsung kepikiran dong 

"Ini mana perpusnya ya? Haha, kok malah pameran"

At the moment gue nyadar

"Yaiyalah rap, menurut lo aja ini perpus nasional sekecil ini. Ini kayaknya emang museum pameran deh" Cqcqcqcq

Oke, langsung cap cus gue eksplor deh daerah sini. Dan tbh, gue seneng banget bisa kesini haha. Karena gue nemu banyak hal seperti lukisan gerak ala-ala Harry Potter, Foto Jokowi meresmikan banyak hal dan ...... Beberapa karya seni yang cukup outstanding. Belum lagi poster-poster bersejarah tentang Bhinneka Tunggal Ika yang menurut gue keren banget, atau terkait Budaya, atau naskah bersejarah lainnya. Beberapa w abadikan, dan beberapa menjadi object insta story me haha.

Check this out!

Frame mirip Harry Potter, bisa gerak!
Jokowi dan para menteri
Jokowi dalam peresmian suatu acara
Replika kapal yang menurut gue artsy banget
Tentang Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, Ketjeh pisan!
Replika manusia pembaca buku, so arts

Tbh, have no idea ini teknologinya gimana, tapi ketjeh pisan sih, gambarnya dan penjelasannya berubah-ubah gitu
Replika manusia memahat (?)

Tentang topeng, budaya, dan variasinya.
Masih banyak yang bisa didapat dari museum ini, so, buat kalian yang tertarik, ayo datang!

Okeh. Di penghujung museum, gue pun menemuka pintu keluar. Dan ..... Ternyata baru deh kita sampai di Perpustakaan Nasional yang aslinya. Nah, buat kalian penasaran, begini nih penampakannya!

Yups, seperti yang lo semua pikirkan. It's Majestic AF!
Gue aja udah bahagia melihat depannya. Ga nyangka loh negara sangat mendukung manusianya untuk membaca! Huftina! Demi mendukung Nawacita Jokowi, yoyoyo!

Sip, lantas, bagaimana kondisi di dalamnya?

Yuhuuu, itu rak buku segede itu loh! Walaupun untuk pajangan, tapi ku melihatnya sangat senang!
Okeh, jadi catatan buat kalian, kalau mau naik, jangan lupa untuk titip tas kalian ya :)) Nanti gitu masuk, langsung belok kanan, disitu ada tempat penitipan. Masing-masing pengunjung akan diberi kunci Loker serta TAS kecil yang disediakan perpus, bagi kalian para pembawa Laptop. (Mon maap ga sempet motoin itu).

Nah, di lantai 1, kalian sebenarnya bisa explore beberapa karya seni kok. Kayak sketsa presiden RI dari Bung Karno, sampe pakde Jokowi, lengkap dengan buku-buku terkait mereka!

Pak Soekarno!
Pak Soeharto!
Pak Habibie!
Pak Gusdur!
Bu Mega!
Pak SBY!
Pak de Jokowi!
Kece kan? Iya, they are so cool, and that's the moment of silent, at least for me, that perhaps I haven't given anything big to my country. So different with them, regardless the backstory of their regime, ya!

Okeh. Gue pun mencoba menelusuri tiap lantai. Nah, lantai 2 adalah tempat registrasi kartu. Ngantri cukup panjang dan lama loh! Dan w baru tahu, kalo mau naik ke lantai 20, 21, 22, 23, dimana tempat koleksi buku terbanyaknya, itu kata satpamnya harus punya kartunya dulu. W tidaq punya pilihan selain buat! Untunglah, w sudah bawa buku yang memang ingin w baca, kan?!

Btw, di setiap lantai, kalian bisa banget loh ngelihat beberapa karya anak bangsa yang dipajang! Apa aja? Ini contohnya!

Mendaki Cita - Gantungkan cita-citamu setinggi langit

Tentang membaca buku tidak kenal budaya

Tentang penyemangat hidup, bahwa dunia diperuntukan bagi mereka sang pembaca
Pada akhirnya, aku memilih satu tempat yang cukup jauh dari keramaian, di Lantai 4, terdapat sofa empuk yang diperuntukkan bagi pengunjung manapun. Disitu ada tempat pameran buku-buku yang tidak banyak dikunjungi, ada juga kamu bisa melihat indahnya Monas secara langsung di teras dekat sini.

Milea, ketahuilah bahwa pemandangan monas ini, jauh lebih cantik ketika kau melihatnya secara langsung.
Baiklah, ada satu kritik yang ingin ku sampaikan untuk mbak-mbak Kantin perpus. PLEASE, ini adalah perpustakaan, tempat dimana kita menginginkan ketenangan. Tolong mbak, tolong, jangan hidupkan musik hip-hop :") Ada satu waktu, dimana gue sangat terganggu dengan lagu-lagu yang mereka putar. Bukankah sebaiknya, memang tidak diputar sama sekali?

Sip.

Demikianlah cerita gue di Perpustakaan Nasional RI. Jadikanlah membaca, sebagai aktivitas rutinmu, karena ia tidak hanya memberikanmu pengalaman, tapi pemahaman dan ide, dari penulis-penulis hebat.