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Life Lessons from SHAD

SHAD has been the most transformative, life-changing experience I have ever had. Here are 50 of the life lessons I have learned to live by that I would like to share with you.

 

  1. Courage over comfort
  2. Be your true, authentic self
  3. We are blessed with the curse of great potential
  4. Done is better than perfect
  5. Perfection is impossible, but in pursuing perfection, we will catch excellence
  6. There is no winning or losing: it’s all about the experience
  7. University is a place to explore and discover yourself
  8. Call people in – don’t call them out
  9. Assume 100% of responsibility in a conflict, because you can’t control the other person
  10. You can be passionate about something but not attached
  11. I care but I don’t mind (Be unaffected by the outcome)
  12. There is no world: there are only 8 billion different interpretations of it
  13. If you change one person’s perspective, you change their whole world
  14. Profit is the outcome of achieving your purpose and changing the world
  15. Don’t assume what people want: go talk to them
  16. Don’t play to not lose, play to win
  17. Playing it safe can be risky
  18. Public speaking should be you having 100 conversations with 100 different people in the room, instead of 1 conversation with the 100 people
  19. Rather try and fail, than fail to try
  20. When driving, honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet him
  21. Be happy with what you have
  22. Life = experiences + people
  23. Work really hard for your grades, but work twice as hard to make your grades the least impressive part of yourself
  24. Don’t think outside the box, think without a box
  25. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no
  26. The thing that people want the most is to be appreciated
  27. To appreciate someone, listen to what they have to say, thank and acknowledge them, and say their name
  28. You have 2 ears and 1 mouth – use them in that proportion
  29. Leadership is the art of getting people to get something done because they WANT to get something done
  30. Things are changing faster now than they ever have been, but they are changing slower than it ever will be compared to the future
  31. The pursuit of greatness can never be achieved, so always strive to get better
  32. How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things, but how well we are understood
  33. Becoming is better than being
  34. Nothing is more common than talented people who are unsuccessful
  35. Push yourself to fatigue, not exhaustion
  36. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderedness
  37. People don’t care how much you know, until they know how much you care
  38. Be the leader you would follow
  39. Don’t fear knowledge
  40. Coming together is the beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success
  41. If you keep killing time, time will turn around and kill you
  42. Wonder about everything
  43. Not all questions need to be answered
  44. Need can always be met, while greed can never be fulfilled
  45. People are buying too many things they don’t need with money they don’t have to impress people that don’t matter
  46. Anyone can make a difference anytime
  47. Missed opportunities sometimes last the longest
  48. Plant the seed of connectivity and watch it flourish
  49. You are unrepeatable: there is magic about you that is all your own
  50. All you need is 20 seconds of insane courage and I promise you something great will come out of it

 

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