College Grad Special: The Top 10 Best Commencement Speeches

Welcome to Thrilling Heroics: a personal and career development site for college students and young professionals! If you enjoy the site, I encourage you to leave your comments and consider subscribing to future articles. Optimize your Life, Rock your Career, and Make the World your Playground!Happy Memorial Day, dear readers. Today is an important U.S. [...]

Your Beliefs Shape Your Personal Power

Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be…. What we believe to be true, what we believe is possible, becomes what’s true, becomes what’s possible…. Many people are passionate, but because of their limiting beliefs about who they are and what they can do, they never [...]

5 Kickass Benefits of Entrepreneurial Learning

John Hennessey is the president of Stanford University, U.S. News & World Report’s #4 university in the nation and voted one of America’s best colleges for entrepreneurs by Fortune Small Business. Hennessey is one academic who has an entrepreneurial legacy himself, as he transferred his important research in microprocessor technology to actual industry application by [...]

It’s Time for Some Thrilling Heroics: Commit to Pursuing Your Wildest Dreams with Me in 2008!

Over at CodyMcKibben.com in November, I wrote about my experiments with freelancing, and about my desire to shift my career so that my work is not just means to pay the bills, but more of a way to express my passions and continue to increase my personal growth. See the post here. In response [...]

Learn To Build A Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion

Following up on last week’s interview with personal branding expert Dan Schawbel, here is an abbreviated classic from codymckibben.com. This is a short and sweet review of Tom Peters’ The BrandYou50, a book that changed my life! The value add here is the BrandYou50 cheat sheet that I put together for you, since I know [...]

Warren Buffett on Doing What You Love

The world’s second richest man gave CNBC an absolutely AWESOME interview in 2006 titled “The Billionaire Next Door.” J.D. Roth has the whole video, broken down with some great supplementary notes!
I just LOVE how down-to-earth Warren Buffett is!! I’ve had the chance to meet him briefly, but even in that time, his attitude made an [...]