Six Lifelong Learning Lessons from The Intern Movie

by mvboronowski | Sep 13, 2017 | Adaptability, Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice

Last week I published a piece on lifelong learning lessons from the perfectly fine Google recruitment video and/or raucous, adventurous workplace comedy, The Internship. This week I will focus on another perfectly fine (except for the last 20 minutes, but this isn’t a...

Six Lifelong Learning Tips from The Internship Movie

by mvboronowski | Sep 6, 2017 | Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice

Last weekend I was prompted by Netflix’s algorithm to watch The Intern and The Internship movies. Both movies got the juices flowing in terms of what so many co-op students and former interns are thinking about now that they’re back in school. This week I’ll focus on...

Why You Should Spend Less Time on Social Media

by mvboronowski | Aug 30, 2017 | Have Better Conversations, Learning & Thinking

Social media is a wonderful medium for connecting and informing communities. Platforms like Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat, however, ask for too much of our time, erode our relationships, and often cause us to be addicted to the distraction of push notifications and...

Four Professional Lessons from Glow

by mvboronowski | Jul 12, 2017 | Learning & Thinking, Pop Culture Career Advice

Glow is the latest Netflix original hit comedy. It tells the fictional story of 1980s women’s wrestling. It’s funny, thoughtful and at times caustic. It’s also got plenty of professional lessons worth considering. Here are four professional lessons from Glow. Have a...

Five Reasons Why You Should Have a Place of Zen

by mvboronowski | Jun 28, 2017 | Learning & Thinking

I’m spending next week at my family home in Merville, British Columbia. It’s where I grew up and it’s my place of Zen. If people are the soul of our communities then our souls also connect to physical spaces that shape us in profound ways. It’s important to have...

Five Ways to Embrace Your Mortality

by mvboronowski | Mar 22, 2017 | Learning & Thinking

We are all going to die. But we also avoid thinking about our mortality. And we are likely to reflect on our deathbeds that we didn’t spend time doing on the most important things during our life. I’ve had some near death experiences – tumbled over a waterfall, got...