My Christmas Update: Reflections After 1 Year Living Abroad

Today I share my Christmas letter to friends and family—my update on my travels, work, volunteering, and personal growth in 2009 and reflections on living an unconventional lifestyle after 1 year living abroad.

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Ramit Sethi Shows You How to Negotiate, Automate & Perspirate Your Way to Financial Success

Explosively successful gen-y blogger & NYT best-selling author Ramit Sethi answers some questions about entrepreneurship, experimentation & failure, how he negotiated a book deal & promoted his book to #1 on Amazon, and tells us about his new I Will Teach You To Be Rich Personal Finance Bootcamp.

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One Good Reason Not to Fear Failure

…It’s always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose. —Management guru Tom Peters, in Fast Company Magazine (October 2003) Join my revolution! Thank you for visiting! I started ThrillingHeroics.com to encourage folks to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle & career, and I'm recruiting [...]

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Excuse Me While I Slip Into a More Comfortable Paradigm

I LOVE this article by Ron Davison! The Bay Area and the Reinvention of Self: “I don’t know if there is another place on the planet where people are so full of possibility – whether it be the possibility of reinventing themselves by a change in thinking…or body…or starting a business with which they expect to [...]

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E-Week at Stanford

Last week was EntrepreneurshipWeek USA across the nation and beyond, sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the New York Times, and Inc Magazine. Over 350 participating universities host their own events to bring together the best entrepreneurial thinkers and leaders–events like Brown University’s 60-second Elevator Pitch competition, Purdue’s Idea-to-Product (I2P) competition, and the Idea [...]

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