Dear friends,
I just wanted to give a special shout-out to everyone who was involved in planning, organizing, and attending the Millennium Campus Conference 2010 at Columbia University this weekend (www.mcc2010.com or #MCC2010 on Twitter). I had a great time, met a TON of cool people, and got super inspired to keep doing great things against poverty / to make the world a better place / to do your thing for social impact.
Towards that end, I'd like to share the 7 Life Lessons from Adam Braun, founder of Pencils of Promise, and a speaker at the conference yesterday:
1. Get out of your comfort zone
-not all who wander are lost!
2. Speak the language of the person you want to become (what's next?)
3. Embrace those late, sleepless nights. Strange things happen when you've gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and separated from the rest of the world.
4. To achieve unreasonable things, you have to become an unreasonable person.
5. Just go. A backpack and a handful of courage is all you need.
6. Find your cause and live it.
7. The single greatest power of youth is the resounding belief that the impossible can be made possiblel.
-be hope-less-ly idealistic about the things that make you feel most alive.
Sound advice for anyone in nonprofits, starting a business, or just ground rules for life.
Good luck with your endeavors!
Katharine
Hey there!
ReplyDeleteI work on MCN Nation Staff and I enjoyed reading your blog post about MCC. I wanted to let you know we just added photos from MCC 2010 our Millennium Campus Network fan page (Facebook.com/MillenniumCampusNetwork)! If you tag yourself, you will be entered to win a tote bag or T-shirt provided by our friends at John Legend’s Show Me Campaign! (If you don’t see yourself in any pictures, you can tag yourself in one of the pictures of the whole audience. I mean, you were in there somewhere, right? Also, You can upload your own pictures from MCC and tag those as well!)
Thanks for your support and I hope you will join us for MCC 2011!
Ariel
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