It’s no secret that I love BroTips. Not. At. All. I pulled out some of my favourites for you during this week ‘o love. Pick of the Post: Tyler Ward – The Hardest Thing
Category Archive: Great People
Feb
15
Feb
14
Two Hearts. Endless Possibilities.
Something amazing happens when two mirrors come together. When they face each other, they create a new world. It is greater than what synergy would describe in the 1+1=3 sense. They expand, deepen, and multiply their reflections in such a way that they both display an image with infinite renditions. The image is endless. Our …
Feb
12
Listen for the Love
I’m confident you’re going to read a lot of articles this week about the materialism of love and about how being single sucks on Valentine’s Day. I’m not going to argue or defend how organizations (both profit and non-profit seeking) have taken advantage of this day to advance their own goals. Instead, every day this …
Feb
05
VCIC: First Copenhagen, Now Oxford.
For the past 2.5 days, 4 of my classmates and I came together as the “Miracle Workers” to compete at the internal round for the Venture Capital Investment Competition. Unlike the usual business case competition, this competition gives MBAs an opportunity to act as a venture capital firm and select a real start-up company to …
Feb
02
Redefine Perfection
These posts by my friends Jo and Jackie, got me thinking about our obsession with the idea of perfection. Dictionaries define perfection as a state of completeness and flawlessness. What if perfection could be a state of being complete with flaws? What if we considered that because it has flaws, it is perfect. The perfect …
Jan
30
Value and Motivation: Wesley George
corker #3: Wesley George! Wes is a seeker of truths. After becoming friends in Vancouver, he went off to complete his degree in mathematics in Ontario and has since moved to New York to help a professor with some of her projects as he completes his PhD in cryptography. He looks for what is true …
Jan
29
Day 4-6: European Yogi Nomads hit Basel
With my travel essentials in tow (a rad playlist, my mat, and my new favourite body refresher), I spent the last three days of my reading deprivation week in Basel, Switzerland with the European Yogi Nomads. 8 hours of yoga was the perfect remedy for the aches and pains of not being able to read …
Jan
29
Flashes of Benevolence
I was in line at Capers on 4th, and somehow got a flash of inspiration and decided to buy the person behind me in line their meal. It was an elderly man, and he was eating a very light serving of dinner. He said that was the nicest thing someone did for him lately, and …
Jan
26
Day 2 + 3: Distraction & Creative Action
Day 1 was filled with temptation. The textbooks, the incoming letters from friends I haven’t heard from in years, the blog posts … all tempting to read. I did not give in. Day 2, yesterday, was a day of distraction. Was there an episode of Community that I could kill some time with? What about …
Jan
22
Feel the Fear. Step Into Action.
Sometimes I get really nervous. This usually happens right before I hit the stage, the morning before a marathon, or right before I press send to that e-mail I knew needed to be written yet have no idea where or how it will be received. I am then reminded that nerves are the best thing …