🎓 Passion and Purpose: Discovering the Power of Serving Others
The author speaks about the opportunity to walk on the campus of Princeton University, his alma mater, with a sense of pride and passion.
He emphasizes the importance of identifying one’s ‘why’ and the people who have sacrificed for you to be in that position.
The author shares a quote by Howard Thurman, which encourages people to ask what makes them come alive, rather than what the world needs, as the world needs people who have come alive.
The author’s personal story of struggling to find a job after graduating from Princeton, and how that failure led him to change his mindset from asking ‘why can’t Princeton do this for me’ to ‘what can I do for Princeton’.
🤝 Shifting from Selfish to Selfless: The Power of Contribution
The author created a mentoring program called ‘Profound I’ for student-athletes at Princeton, where he shared his knowledge on networking, professional development, and academic efficiency.
The program grew in size, and the university president eventually supported it financially, recognizing the author’s contribution.
The author emphasizes the importance of shifting one’s mindset from ‘what can this community give me’ to ‘what can I contribute to this community’, as this opens up new opportunities and doors.
The author lives by the two words ‘inform’ and ‘inspire’, where ‘inform’ represents the information coming from the outside, and ‘inspire’ represents the spirit within.
