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-9 posts tagged "success"
Krista Lourdes Akiki | Friday, February 21, 2020
I have come to notice that our society increasingly values charisma over personality. We are constantly trying to prove to the world we are bold, assertive, capable. Yet, as Susan Cane so gracefully says, “The best talker is often times not the best leader.” This distortion that drives our group dynamics and collaboration has sidetracked
Cate Von Dohlen | Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Meghan Sullivan, philosophy professor and director of the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study, elaborated on succeeding at Notre Dame “without losing your soul,” in a lecture Tuesday night. Sullivan directs the God and the Good Life program. Her lecture, titled “How to succeed at Notre Dame without losing your soul,” was the sixth annual
Mary Mansfield | Thursday, September 5, 2019
The Saint Mary’s Office for Student Success is ushering in the fall semester with its Academic Skills & Strategies Workshops starting Wednesday. Diane Fox, director of the Office for Student Success, started the series when the office first opened 10 years ago with the hope to achieve two goals: To help freshman get oriented and
Diversity Council | Tuesday, September 25, 2018
“Control is a mirage. The most effective leaders right now — men and women — are those who embrace traits once considered feminine. Empathy. Vulnerability. Humility. Inclusiveness. Generosity.” — Leigh Buchanan Empathy. Every year, The Posse Foundation and Posse Scholars facilitate an annual weekend-long PossePlus Retreat attended by members of the larger student body, faculty
Benjamin Padanilam | Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story was published online March 19. It’s really easy to get caught up in the juicy narrative Sunday’s game offered. In the first half, top-seeded Notre Dame found itself in a battle with ninth-seeded Villanova, entering the locker room in the midst of a tie game. But coming
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, October 5, 2016
If the definition of success is “the accomplishment of an aim or purpose,” then how do you—or is it even possible to—measure success without the existence tangible results? For my first few weeks in Chennai, India, I felt certain that my success rate with the students of Vidya Sagar was going to be negligible if
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, January 19, 2016
About a year ago, I was in an incredibly different place than where I am right now — quite literally (I’m in London now, I was in South Bend then). But also in incredibly more ways. In January 2015, my last few years at Notre Dame were going to be defined by one day, as
Janice Chung | Friday, November 13, 2015
At what point do we stop dreaming, and resign ourselves to lives of monotony and conformity? As children, we are all taught we can be whatever we want to be, we should follow our passions and if we do what we love, we will never work a day in our lives. This is the key
Scott Boyle | Friday, September 26, 2014
I love those pictures that double as visual illusions. Google “visual illusions” and you’ll see examples of what I am talking about. There is, for example, the intricate picture of a woman whose face and outline doubles as a pastoral landscape. Her “hair” doubles as a horse, her “eyes” as hooves, her “face” as mountains,