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Question from a college student about acknowledging his accomplishments and abilities

Categories: Education, real life stuff, Self-confidence

The email below came to me from a college student with whom I’ve been exchanging emails for a while after meeting him at a past speaking event. Here, he explains how he’s been recognized for being active on his campus, but he’s not sure of how he can acknowledge it fully and communicate it at the right times…Definitely a great thing for a future business professional to get right early on. He asks for my advice on how he can increase his awareness skills to truly recognize whether something that he’s done is distinctive or not.

By the way, in … Read the rest

Question from a Black college student about race, upbringing, and finding success

Categories: Business, career, Education, professional advice, real life stuff, Self-confidence

In the 9+ years that I’ve maintained this blog, I have made an effort not to mention race too often because it’s a somewhat obvious topic for a Black dude to write about. Instead, I’ve focused on things like business school, MBA admissions, management consulting, careers, and business in general, all of which are colorblind for the most part.

The way I see it, I’m a Stanford MBA graduate, former Consultant, and current businessperson who just happens to be African-American and, further, my insights/advice are applicable regardless of the racial background of a given reader. That said, every now and … Read the rest

Advice for a college student on dealing with a situation involving racism

Categories: discrimination, real life stuff, Self-confidence

As far as I can remember, the email below is a first for me over the past 6 years of responding to reader questions on this blog.

The author of the message is a college student who asked for my advice in dealing with racism. As you all know, this is a huge topic and there is no single right answer on how to tackle the issue. It is probably even tougher to handle for a kid who is in college, so I admire this person for being willing to ask for counsel about it.

Unfortunately, it’s something that I’ve … Read the rest

Advice on building self-confidence for a college Freshman

Categories: About Marquis, Business, my motivations, Reader comments, real life stuff, Self-confidence

The email that I’ve posted below is from a college Freshman who attended a keynote presentation that I have a few months ago. I talked about many things in that speech, including the ideas of goal setting and self confidence. When I saw this email, I couldn’t help but smile because I could see that my words really sank in for this kid and encouraged him to write in search of some personal advice.

I responded to this student’s email in 2 parts because I had answered a question similar to his first point in this post. So, in … Read the rest

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