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Career Advice from White Lotus

HBO’s White Lotus reveals the complex lives of wealthy vacationers, exploring character transformations, regressions, and consistency throughout its three seasons. Viewers witness diverse arcs affecting personal growth and career development, illustrating how unexpected experiences can shape one’s journey, while also critiquing the consequences faced by the privileged.

A Happy New Year Haiku

Happy new year goals. Pathways full of potential. Make the luck you need. – A haiku about 2025, which is a year full of promise and potential for all of us (especially when we embrace planned happenstance by making the most…

Three Ways to Make Your Own Luck

Growing personally and professionally in service of your community’s needs takes a little bit of luck. In our lives we will meet mentors and sponsors at dinner parties or sporting events who end up opening doors in our careers. Circles…

Four Professional Lessons From the 2018 World Cup Final

We probably just experienced one of the greatest Men’s Football World Cup Finals in modern history. There were own-goals, there was controversial technology, titans of the sport fell, young-upstart-squads excelled, and we all compartmentalized the event’s unfortunate externalities, such as…

Professional Lessons from Popular Board Games

We all have our favourite board games. The professional lessons from popular board games like Monopoly, Risk, Settlers of Catan, Clue, and Scrabble can have a powerful impact on your career. For example, while almost all board games involve chance, many…