Filtering Through the Static: My Media Consumption Habits

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!I’ve put together a primer on my media and entertainment [...]

ThrillingHeroics.com: The Best Posts of 2007

Happy Holidays everybody. I wish you all the best and hope that you get a chance to spend some quality time with family and loved ones. If you haven’t heard yet, I am traveling in Spain for the holidays with some good friends, but I wanted to be sure to share my 2007 year-end wrap-up [...]

How To Use Your Peers For Fun And Profit!

You’re a high achiever! You’re motivated to succeed in your education and your career. But do you know the price of success? Frank Lloyd Wright, America’s most famous architect, captured it well when he said, “I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see [...]

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 [...]

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)

Book Review: Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk

Anyone who’s crazy about business books knows Tom Peters, the management guru who foresees an Inescapable White Collar Revolution that will transform business in the next ten years! (And if you don’t, you should read him!)
Well, Tom is getting to be quite the old-timer. (Sorry, Tom.)
Penelope Trunk is his engaging, competent, young replacement. ‘Nuff [...]