Warren Buffett on Doing What You Love

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!The world’s second richest man gave CNBC an absolutely AWESOME [...]

Top 10 Events and Films that Created Change in 2006

Looking back at 2006, there were a lot of major events and people that changed the path of history. Rather than a traditional top ten list there is a list of five actual events that made an economic, social, or environmental change, and since everyone loves movies, there is also a list of five thinking-man’s [...]

Five Things 2006 Has Taught Me

Ben (from Startup Spark) is hosting a group writing project at his Instigator Blog, and for each participating blog $5 will be donated to charity. The prompt is “What did you learn in 2006?” So here is my contribution to the project!
Ben’s call for participation in his group writing project offers me a unique opportunity [...]

I Met Warren!

So, it worked out, and the College of Business was invited to a special reception with Warren Buffett at his new RC Willey store in Rocklin. My boss was awesome enough to set aside a ticket for me, so I got to rub shoulders with some of Sacramento’s big wigs at lunch at PF Chang’s [...]

Warren Buffett Gives It All Away

I recently read these two stories about Buffett’s decision to give away 85% of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and those of his children. It really shed some light on his strategy. He’s looking for value in giving away his money, just as he does in making it.
The Buffett Way of [...]

The Second Richest Man in the World

So, yesterday at work I learned that Warren Buffett had been planning to come to Sacramento State.
Yes, planning is the key word in that sentence. Who is Warren Buffett, you say? Only the second most wealthy person on this planet (!), after Bill Gates. He’s a brilliant investor and huge philanthropist, and has been in [...]