Self Driving Book Review - Getting To Know The Term Driver-Passanger By Rhenald Kasali

Self Driving Book (Photo: Detha Arya Tifada / VOI)

JAKARTA - The book Self Driving by Rhenald Kasali looks striking with its red cover, firmly written, and there is a National Bestseller label. This book will attract the attention of people who are walking to the bookstore.

There are three compelling reasons to buy this 286-page book. First, this book has become a reference for many people who dream of being an agile leader, the author is quite famous, and because the studies in the book look interesting.

As the title implies, this book contains the choice of being a human being as a leader. There are two choices, as a driver (driver) or passanger (passenger).

A driver is a leader who on his way can go wrong, or hit another vehicle. If there is an accident, he is responsible, not the passenger.

Meanwhile, passenger, a leader who is likened to a passenger on a trip to a place. He can be sleepy, fall asleep, be silent, don't even need to know the direction, and he doesn't need to work hard to guard his car.

From that term, Renald matched the words driver with winner (people who are successful), and passanger with loser (people who fail).

Winner according to Rhenald, is a person who looks full of enthusiasm, doesn't give up easily, doesn't complain and doesn't complain much. Meanwhile, loser is considered as someone who gives up easily, thinks everything is difficult, blames others and often acts inconsequential.

From chapter one to the last chapter, readers are presented with many things related to the difference between driver and passanger. Renald also dissected other terms, such as bad driver (bad driver) and good passanger (good passenger).

Everything is presented with motivations in the form of excerpts of writings from book owners in national newspapers, both those containing knowledge, as well as profile summaries of people who have succeeded in making themselves leaders for companies to the state. The language written in this book is also easy to understand.

One of the stories written in this book is the story of Conor McGregor, a Mix Martial Art (MMA) fighter from the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).

In the past, Conor was just an ordinary person and did not stand out. Many of his friends bully him. He also has the desire to learn martial arts, the reason is just in case.

On his way, he had a dream of becoming a footballer, and failed. That is the foundation and opens his aspirations to build a career as an MMA fighter.

This book deserves to be juxtaposed with the monumental book Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki. The difference is, Robert T. Kiyosaki focuses on rich dad and poor dad figures. Meanwhile, Rhenald Kasali focuses on drivers and passengers.

For those of you who are in the middle of the road starting to feel that life tends to be mediocre, then just read Self Driving, who knows after reading, mentally that used to be a passanger, then turned into a driver.

Finally, here is a view from Rhenald Kasali that is interesting to reflect on: "Based on my observations, one of the tough problems this nation faces in facing change is our low ability to get out of our comfort zone."

Book Title: Self Driving

Author: Rhenald Kasali

First published: 2004

Publisher: Mizan

Number of Pages: 286