Einstein and work passion

Today I had a completely new piece of information I got from Chris Guillebeau Born for This. In a chapter he mentioned the importance of following one’s passion but also to focus on what gets money for everyday life and paying the bills. In this chapter he mentioned that Albert Einstein had been working as a clerk for patent office.

Einstein felt it’s a good thing that he keeps his routine job that gets him the cash that enables him to focus on what really matters to him and loves the most ( that Relativity thing ).

You can keep your daily job as a mean for getting a constant and reliable source of income while keeping your eyes on your passion in practical aspects.

Making a schedule for regular practicing of your passion is a good starting point.

You must keep time for yourself and keep it as a ritual. Scheduling that time and linking it with a simple doable action that supports your overall target to your passion.

Improving your skills as working towards making them inevitable is not an option.

Reading books, taking courses or even watching useful videos concerning your passion is a good source of information.

Also, the regular scheduled practice routine makes skills improvement automatic.

Scheduling definitely makes things possible and doable. Simplicity makes your brain do it spontaneously. Simplicity means splitting big targets into small easy tasks.

Scheduling is mainly linking those simple tasks with some other habit you already do effortlessly or linking them with something that definitely happens (i.e. Sunset or when it’s 2 o’clock)

The idea has made my day. 

I know many writers who write about entrepreneurship and making business as a side hustle who agree with this point.

Where you can keep your daily job and have fun practicing your true inner passion. But when you see that Einstein himself have done it, that’s a brand new headline.

My First Arabic Post on Instructables

Today I am so proud and happy to announce my first complete post on the big DIY Giant instructables.com

instructables support for Arabic language

http://www.instructables.com/id/إصنع-السيارة-الشمسية-في-خمس-دقائق/

I've always wanted to publish in my native mother language Arabic.

I've tried it once before but it seemed like the website didn't support the Arabic Language back then. It was bad news for me but I kept making new projects and posting new articles on instructables.

It has been like addiction to motivation.

Today I came up with a whole new idea. I thought to myself: 

Why don't I translate my instructables to new languages like German, French or Spanish?

And then I started to translate my previous insrtuctables and to post in German and French too.

I thought of repeating my experiment in posting in Arabic Language on instructables.

You know what .... it works.

I don't know but it may be the first one also.

I've Googled it before and today but I didn't get any results. I couldn't find any information about other Arabic articles on instructables.

This was a huge shift for me.

I remember back in 2009 when I joined instructables as reader.

I've always searched the web for DIY and How-to's. I've always searched for many electronic circuits of projects to build and I got the same results .... You can always find it on instructables.

So as a reader it was something good for me but with no slightest effort. I even saved lots of articles on the hope that I may build some of them someday.

I've always had that feeling of delayed motivation that has been defeated by procrastination to post something on instructables.

Although I've previously posted projects and tutorials on my own blog since 2008 but I couldn't turn that motivation to post on instructables into a real thing.

It actually took me four years as a reader from 2009 until I had the courage to post my first post in 2013.

It only started when I saw a contest that I thought I had something to fit in. I knew before that contests are help on regular basis on instructables but I felt like this one is for me.

With the inspiration and help of my wife we published our first instructable.

Actually we both posted seven articles back then and they all got the theme of the contest that started it all the way.

We didn't won in this contest but it was a big opening for both of us.

The motivating and feedback from the healthy environment that instructables gave us was magnificent.

After many trials and posts I've won my first prize as a runner up on Leftovers Contest for my article about wind turbine made from recycled materials.

Today I urge you to start your instructables in your own language.

You will never regret it. They also have contests for first time authors.

Defeat that procrastination and start right now. I assure you that you'll never be the same anymore.

Act now. Start your instructable....

مقالتي الأولى باللغة العربية على إنستراكتابلز

اليوم نشرت أول مقالة لي بالكامل باللغة العربية على موقع إنستراكتابلز

هذه المقالة هي أحد مقالاتي على موقع إنستراكتابلز

http://www.instructables.com/id/إصنع-السيارة-الشمسية-في-خمس-دقائق/

وهي في الواقع أول مقالة أكتبها بالكامل باللغة العربية على موقع إنستراكتابلز

ولا أعرف إن كانت هناك مقالات أخرى باللغة العربية على هذا الموقع الرائع أم لا

بداية الفكرة 

خطرت لي هذه الفكرة منذ فترة وقررت تنفيذها ولكن الموقع لم يكن يدعم اللغة العربية 

ومن وقتها لم أقم بالتجربة مرة أخرى حتى يومنا هذا 

محاولة جديدة

وفي هذه الأيام خطرت لي فكرة جديدة وهي أن أقوم بنشر مقالاتي على إنستراكتابلز بلغات أخرى بجانب الإنجليزية بهدف الإنتشار العالمي .

وذلك أن أترجم مقالاتي على إنستراكتابلز - القديم منها والحديث - باللغات الفرنسية والألمانية بجانب الإنجليزية


وفكرت لم لا أقوم أيضاً بنشر مقالاتي باللغة العربية ؟

وتذكرت أني قد حاولت ذلك بالفعل من قبل ولكن لم تفلح المحاولة 

فأعدت المحاولة اليوم وإذا بي أجدُ أن الموقع بالفعل يدعم اللغة العربية وتم قبول المقالة على الموقع 

وبالتالي تكون هذه أولى مقالاتي باللغة العربية على موقع إنستراكتابلز ولكن لن تكون الأخيرة بإذن الله

وسوف أستمر في ترجمة مقالاتي السابقة ونشر المقالات الجديدة باللغة العربية على الموقع


تعريف بموقع إنستراكتابلز

لمن لا يعرف موقع إنستراكتابلز

هو موقع متخصص في ثقافة إصنع بنفسك

Do-It-Yourself

وهي ثقافة المصادر المفتوحة وإتاحة المعلومات للجميع في كل المجالات

بحيث تستطيع محاكاة تجربة أي شخص عن طريق معرفة الخطوات الفعلية التي اتخذها هذا الشخص للوصول لهدفه


فمثلاً . قد تجد مقالة عن طريقة صناعة دائرة ألكترونية لمكبر صوتي 

فما تجده في المقالة على الموقع هو الخطوات التي يشرحها الشخص صاحب المقالة بالتفصيل 

بدءاً من المخطط الأولي للدائرة الألكترونية مروراً بالمكونات وشراءها وتجميعها وخطوات اللحام بالصور ومقاطع الفيديو 

ثم انتهاءاً بخطوات التجربة والتقييم الحقيقي للدائرة الألكترونية

وكذلك بهذه الطريقة في كل المجالات في الأشغال اليدوية والحرف كالنحت والطبخ والرسم والإصلاح وأعمال النجارة والحدادة والسباكة


الموقع أصبح من أحد أهم المواقع التي تدعم ثقافتي إصنع بنفسك والمصادر المفتوحة 

حتى أنني ألاحظ الكثير من الشركات التي تقدم حلولاً لجماهيرها المستهلكين عن طريق تقديم المقالات التي تستخدم منتجاتهم

وأيضاً هناك العديد من الباحثين وطلبة الدكتوراه في المجالات العلمية ممن يقومون بتوثيق اكتشافاتهم وابتكاراتهم التي ترقى لمستوى الإختراعات بهدف دعم ثقافة المصادر المفتوحة والإنتشار العالمي

كما أن هناك العديد من المقالات التي تشرح المهارات الإجتماعية والسلوكية والمهارات اليومية

أعتقد أن هذه فرصة عظيمة للإنتشار ولدعم المحتوى الهادف باللغة العربية ولنشر ثقافة إصنع بنفسك باللغة العربية

إن كانت لديك مهارة معينة أو شئ ترغب في نشره وتعريفه للعالم فهذه فرصتك الذهبية لفعل ذلك

الموقع جذاب بالفعل وبه روح تنافسية إيجابية مع التشجيع الفعال وإتاحة المجال للنقد البنّاء مع العلم بأن التعليقات السلبية أو التي تنشر بغرض الإهانة أو التجريح لا تنشر وذلك لكي تظل البيئة العامة السائدة فى الموقع بيئة عمل إيجابية

منذ أن اشتركت فى الموقع من عام 2009 وأنا أتعلم منه الكثير 

ففي البداية اشتركتُ كقارئ فقط . وكنت أتصفح المقالات التي تنشر بهدف المعرفة والتعلم 

وكنت كلما بحثت على الإنترنت على طريقة بناء دائرة ألكترونية أو إصلاح شئ ما بنفسي وجدت لذلك مقالة على إنستراكتابلز

وطالما أردت أن أنشر مقالات لي على هذا الموقع

وقد كنت بالفعل بدأت بنشر مقالات لي على مدونتي الخاصة منذ عام 2008 

إلا أنني لم أبدأ بالنشر على إنستراكتابلز إلا في عام 2013

ومنذ وقتها وأنا أقوم بتوثيق جميع مشروعاتي وتجاربي على هذا الموقع وحتى مالم أنشره على الموقع في وقتها أقوم بتوثيقه بأثر رجعي

لم لا تجرب أن تنشر مقالاتك الأولى الآن ؟

الكثير من البشر يميلون إلى الكسل والتسويف . حتى وإن كان الشئ الذي يريدون تنفيذه مفيد بالنسبة لهم وسهل ويعلمون أن به الفائدة بالنسبة إليهم بالفعل

وأنا أقول لك ذلك من منطلق تجربتي الشخصية . فقد أمضيت أربع سنوات على الموقع كقارئ له فقط . حتى أخذت الخطوة الأولى للكتابة والنشر على الموقع

ولذلك يمكنك أن تجد أن الموقع لا يشجعك على مجرد القراءة والإطلاع على هذه المقالات فقط ولكن يشجعك أيضاً بالكثير من الطرق

فهناك الكثير من المسابقات المستمرة التي تدعمها الشركات العالمية التي تقدم الجوائز القيمة

وهذه المسابقات تقام بصفة دورية ولكل مسابقة جو عام أو فكرة جوهرية تدور حولها . مثل الطيران أو المحركات أو الطبيعة أو الطاقة الشمسية


وبالنسبة لي فقد كان الدافع الأساسي لكتابة أول مقالاتي على الموقع هو الإشتراك في مسابقة أقيمت على الموقع

كما أن هناك المسابقات التي تقام بصفة دورية للكتاب أصحاب المقالة الأولى

First Time Author Contest

وبالإستمرار في النشر على الموقع والإشتراك في المسابقات الدورية استطعتُ أن أفوز بأحد الجوائز من خلال أحد مقالاتي الخاصة بطاقة الرياح


ابدأ الآن وانشر مقالتك الأولى فقد تربح الكثير وإن لم تربح فسوف تتعلم الكثير أيضاً وسوف تكون الفائز أيضاً

Build You Dreams - The Auto Company Owned by The Battery Company

Today I came across this news headline about Warren Buffett Electric Bus.

When I tried to Google it, I found the BYD Company. Build Your Dream.

The Chinese Auto Maker BYD Auto is backed up by Warren Buffett and it was way back at 2008 when he spent $230 million for acquisition of 10% of the parent company BYD stocks.

BYD Company is the holding company for some major subsidiaries and some of them are BYD Auto and BYD IT.

BYD Holding provides many products in Electric, Electronics, Batteries, Automotive and Renewable Energy.

Why it is so advantageous to be an introvert as a child and a teenager?

Why it is so advantageous to be an introvert as a child and a teenager?

You may think that being an introvert is a big disadvantage for your life. But wait.

For me, being an introvert in my childhood and my early days as a teenager was a real hard thing.

I don't know how it is like to still be an introvert at maturity because that is beyond my scope of concern.


You know that feeling when you know that you have to meet and talk to people to have your life going but that is really the hardest part.

Family reunions, meeting with colleges, parties and many other events including people you know and others you don’t. All this had gave me the hardest times of my life. But you know what?

When I turn to think about those days and look at them today I feel that I was blessed being an introvert at that stage of my early life.

Here is how.

The more you exercise the better you become
I have many colleges that I know well who have been the farthest from been introverts at their childhood. 

But seeing them in these days I was surprised to see how they have changed not to so social or so successful in their lives.

Being an introvert have always been a challenge for me. Meeting new people was something like a hard thing to do. 

Even seeing known people had been an even that need mental preparation for me.
I knew I had to overcome all those feelings and that’s what have made daily challenges for me.

First I felt it as a hard thing to do. But then I enjoyed being challenged by facing new social and psychological experiments.

The more you demand from yourself the more you expand

Later, I knew that facing your fears is the best way to expand and to beat them.

Nowadays I’ve heard it from Tony Robbins that facing your fears is like stretching your mind to do new things you couldn’t ever think you were able to do.

I’ve heard him saying that what you can’t do you must do. That is what exactly I had in mind while I’ve been trying to transform myself from being an introvert to a person who doesn’t fear facing or meeting people.

Also, being an introvert had helped me seeking new skills for personal improvement. Feeling that you are always in a challenge is a good feeling if only you could manage the stress and get the suffering out of it and enjoy the whole process.

And that exactly what I did.

I felt like facing my fears is a lot enjoyable feeling than being afraid of them all the time (even when it could lead to troubles sometimes).

The Mask Effect

What you really lack is what you really desire the most.
I’ve learned that the feeling you have always had becomes the inner desire that keeps moving you. Being an introvert had been motivating me to becoming a better person on the social and psychological level.
This has helped me more to read and experiment on that field.


People are social creatures. All around history there has been a strong need for communication between them.

But these days this need is so critical with the introduction of new technologies and relationships between people, companies and countries.

“If you don’t talk to your neighbor you are out of business”
That’s another one I heard from Tony Robbins. 



Self-talker and Good listener

Being a good listener can be thought of as a self-talker.

I previously have been asked why I didn’t talk too much. Part of the truth was the fact that I had nothing significant to say or I’ve been afraid/shied to say it.

The other part of it was the fact that I’ve always been a good listener/learner. People interpreted that as silence, self-talk or shied state.

Internal vs Outer show

The truth that I had much more important show that had been playing in my mind that entertained me more than any other outer show in the real world. Not self-talk but deep thinking, observing and making mental connections.
Later, I’ve learned that while I can enjoy my internal show, I had to act in the real world and to avoid the possibility of having the destructive self-talk.




Watch out having too much of Axioms

You need to transfer your thoughts to others continuously. You have to be careful form having too much axioms into your mind.

You have to watch yourself and protect it from being a continuous receiver from others.


In my early life, I had a lot of axioms and it felt good to me.

It worked good for me and had helped me to gain a lot of knowledge and avoid a lot of pitfalls in daily life.

But when I had to interact deeply with more people I found that having too much of axioms can be useful but can be also a source of many problems.

I you take everything to know as axiom from other people you may end up feeling disappointed when they don't do what you've expected them to do.

You may want something from other people and expect them to do it but they have no idea about it.

There may be a case when you help others by telling them what to do but you might think that they also know it as an axiom so you don't tell them.

You need to make sure that those axioms don't get into your way of success and into the way you communicate with people.

Quiet people have the loudest minds