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You grow up the day you have your first real laugh — at yourself.
vice and verse
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Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro
- Any career lessons climbing a mountain can teach you?
- So, so many. But I’ll distill it down to one. The number one lesson of climbing mountains and pushing yourself physically like that in rather unnatural environments and elevations is that you need to listen to your body. If something’s wrong, you have to make a really quick decision as to whether it’s something where you think you can adapt or whether it’s a situation where you need to speak up and let it be known that something’s wrong. But you also have to be willing to understand that you’re part of a team and that there might be other people who depend on you.
Reblogged from fuck yeah! anna karina
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Over the years, Jim Patell and his team have developed a kind of formula for success - a way for his students to become what he calls creatively “accident prone.”
“It’s not, if I just squint and concentrate, that idea will come to me,” says Patell. “It’s, I don’t have that idea now. I don’t have that insight now, but I can go through a set of activities that I can execute, when I want, to enhance the probability that the great idea is going to occur.”
By gaining deep empathy with their customers, brainstorming with partners and team members, and producing many prototypes quickly, students learn what works and what doesn’t.
Ultimately, Patell says, “what the course produces is young men and women who we aspire to be able to drop down into any messy situation, have them land on their feet and make progress.”
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Courage is not the absence of fear but the judgment that something else is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all. For now you are traveling the road between who you think you are and who you can be.
— Meg Cabot
A five year old on "mistakes"
- “Have you ever made a mistake while painting?” he asked.
- “Yes. Always. Everything you see around you is a mistake.”
- “Wow. Really? Mistakes are so beautiful! Let’s go paint a billion million mistakes!”
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In a Forbes magazine article, a college classmate wrote of Chen’s evolution since moving to the Bay Area: “He used to tell me, ‘I want to build a product that helps social entrepreneurs and changes the world.’ Now he tells me, ‘I want to be the next Airbnb or Dropbox.’
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I love working wherever I can get my “splendid isolation,” as Einstein called it.
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