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Try this at least once a day
My friend suggested that I try this everyday for a week and closely monitor results:
- Find a place to sit quietly, preferably alone.
- Induce yourself into a bout of uncontrollable joy and appreciation.
- Hone in on the source and let it overhaul everything you do (phone calls, email exchanges, meetings, etc.) the rest of the day.
This exercise is uniquely human. The goal is to rescue zombie'd brain capacity from the digital piranha preying upon our dwindling patience, care, and attention. Remember what it’s like after forcefully unwiring yourself Day 2 of a 5-day vacation? The importance of important things is amplified.
I know it's played-out like Atari, but this double-rainbow guy must have it down.
Written on Thursday, 12 January 2012 08:25
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I'll Share Mine if You Share Yours: The StartUp Scramble Story
Award-winning filmmaker and 1992 US Olympian, Mary Mazzio, invited me to share the StartUp Scramble story with the Babson startup community. Mary and the 50 Eggs production team crafted a video that captures the origins of Young Impact and showcases a few of my more vulnerable moments (I choked up when I spoke about Eric's passing and how it shifted my life's direction). The interview and photo shoot were an uncomfortable amount of fun. More stories from Babo-affiliated execs, entrepreneurs, and innovators are available here.
Please enjoy the reel and I hope you'll share your stories and comments with me below (despite the constipated look on my face =)!
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Written on Friday, 16 December 2011 12:13
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Hosting an "Everything But Moderate" Student #SOCENT Panel
"I was asked to moderate this panel. This panel will be everything but moderate."
Moderation has little elbow room at the table alongside hungry student founders whose mission is to build ventures that rail on social ails.
In the backdrop of the Occupy protests, I had the privilege to moderate the panel, "Seeding, Nurturing and Growing Student Innovations," at TiE Boston's Forum for Social Entrepreneurship 2011 (#ForSE2011). Along with four student founders, we had 45 minutes to explore the process of transforming ideas into entities across campuses and society.
Written on Monday, 10 October 2011 14:08
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If You Could Ask Harvard Luminary Howard Gardner One Question...
This week marks a personal milestone: The opportunity to meet Dr. Howard Gardner, world-renowned education luminary and fellow Scrantonian, one-on-one. Dr. Gardner is the founder of the theory of multiple intelligences (MI) and chances are, like me, you've been affected by his breakthroughs.
Elementary school never felt right. My "creative capacities" landed me in time-out or the principal's office more often than I care to recount. It is rumored that my second grade teacher requested permission from my mother to use instances of my contrarian, unruly behavior as case studies in her Master's thesis. (Mom neither confirms nor denies the allegations to this day.). From kindergarten to third grade, I dreaded going to school and felt stuck, held in educational contempt of court, when domiciled in a classroom. In fact, I was the first student in my class to be suspended (for fighting a much larger classmate on behalf of two lesser-equipped peers, albeit for a damn good cause).
Then I witnessed something that literally changed my life’s trajectory:
Written on Sunday, 26 June 2011 12:24
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With over 250 billion dollars in endowment and intellectual firepower unrivaled anywhere in the world, this country's research universities are the crown jewels of our society. But these grim economic times and the complexity of the world's biggest problems demand that universities become problem-centered engines of innovation and increasingly adept at execution. There is increasing evidence that leaders in higher education are responding to the challenge...
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