Live Your Passion!

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TED TalksLive Your Passion!

School of Technological Entrepreneurship

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What is the E-Club?

The

Future?

Today is all about:

• Opening your mind• Seeing the World from <,>, ^, v• Digging Deeper• Starting things

The goods

• Intro– Program updates

• ChitChat• TED– Mike Rowe– Singing– Ken Robinson– Start a movement

• Survey

Updates

Circle up!

• Form two concentric circles. Discuss away.

Mike Rowe

WARNING: a bit graphic

Anagnorisis & Peripeteia

Mike Rowe

• Disturbing? Maybe

• BIG QUESTION: what do we really know? – Whose right?

• Life is full of contradictions and preconceptions

Mike Rowe

• Why are we OK with taking things at face value?• Doing things “the way have been?”

• Consider: what are some of your own anagnorises and peripeteias?

• Entrepreneurship: changing the way we look at the World

Ba, ba, bahh

Schools ≠ Creativity

“For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."

- John F. Kennedy.”

How to start a movement

Conclusion

• It’s easy to make assumptions about how things should be. Why?

• The movement of many starts with the power of one. Why?

• Be bold, prepared to be wrong and perpetually learn. Why?

• Live your Passion!

Next Week

• Tomorrow: round table chat with Seed Stage Investor and young entrepreneur

• Tuesday (3/22): How to’s of Networking• Get Together (3/23): Dinner with the Chinese

Entrepreneurs Group