Why you will fail to have a great career: Larry Smith at TEDxUW
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Uploaded on Jan 8, 2012
Throughout his three-decade career here at the University of Waterloo, Larry Smith has inspired legions of students to take up the mantle of economics with his passionate and homespun tales of economic wizardry. A renowned story-teller, teacher and youth leadership champion, Larry has also coached and mentored countless numbers of students on start-up business management and career development strategies.
Having taught introductory microeconomics, macroeconomics and entrepreneurship classes, he recently celebrated assigning his 29,000th grade earlier this year.
Recipient of the Distinguished Teacher Award, Larry has also coached several of his former students to help them position and develop their businesses, the most famous of which is Research in Motion (RIM), maker of the revolutionary BlackBerry wireless mobile smartphone. Larry also sits on the advisory panels of start-ups to provide his guidance on financing and negotiation with investors and venture capitalists.
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John Galvin 1 week ago
I loved it, didn't expect bane to be so inspirational
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achemhem 1 week ago
Such an uncomfortable 15 minutes...in a good way?
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Dal Pal 12 hours ago
I thought a lot about this, and I don't like what he's saying. Too complicated to fully explain. My dream is to stay happy, isn't that what everybody really wants? The overall dream? It's obtainable in every job you just need the right mentality and morals. The world doesn't function with 1 billion rock stars.
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MrLeshann 21 hours ago
Twisted view on success if you ask me, focused more on proving your worth to others than necessarily fulfilling one's desire. Very American actually.
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Fluoride INwater 23 hours ago
"if only you had" watched the whole thing, he has a great career, He said pursue 10 things of passion. Romper Room - looks like your passion is "chat rooms" hows that payin out? Fluoride is poison it's time to get passionate...unless...
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Lex Wick 1 day ago
dumb ass boring cliche crap
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G Dempster 1 day ago
Just take the advice smh, what if his dream is to teach what he does more than just teach...watch what they do ?? its not about him or anybody its about following your dreams, watching other will stop u from getting things done
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sor3999 1 day ago
His dream is to teach.
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sor3999 1 day ago
That's really cynical to think people would not be motivated unless they had competition.
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sor3999 1 day ago
There are many different types of fields in either sports or music. You can be a project planner. Or a sound engineer. Unless you meant specifically a pro sports baller or a platinum musician with sold out concerts. People who love video games think they should go into programming, but forget that music, art, story telling, and planning make up the rest of it.
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