“Passion is your greatest love. Passion is the thing that will help you create the highest expression of your talent. Passion; interest; it’s not the same thing! Are you really going to go to your sweetie and say: ‘Marry me! You’re interesting!’?” Larry Smith, TedxUW If you have never heard Larry Smith speak, then I…
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The best part of college is that you could become whatever you wanted to become, but most people just do what they think they must. Is this a metaphor? Sure. But it’s a worthwhile one. You have more freedom at work than you think (hey, you’re reading this on company time!) but most people do…
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I’m lucky. I’ve known what I’m passionate about for quite some time. It probably started back in grade seven when I first started playing Warcraft 2 on my 486. The mystery about how a curious little box could bring me so much joy — hours upon hours on end — playing a simple computer game…
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University is supposed to be one of those life changing experiences. You come in a scared ignorant youth and walk out a confident worldly adult — at least that’s what we’d all like to believe. Change is inevitable and despite Hollywood movies where this process happens in the span of a fifteen minute montage, this…