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What matters most to you, and why?
07-11-2015, 07:25 PM
This is the flagship essay to get into Stanford MBA. The directions are:
-Focus on the “why” rather than the “what.”
-Do some deep self-examination, so you can genuinely illustrate who you are and how you came to be the person you are.
-Share the insights, experiences, and lessons that shaped your perspectives, rather than focusing merely on what you’ve done or accomplished.
-Write from the heart, and illustrate how a person, situation, or event has influenced you.
I do not expect you guys to write an essay but I think is interesting to do some introspection and recognise what is the most important for each of us.
For me, I think that is freedom, basically freedom to do whatever I want. For you?
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What matters most to you, and why?
07-11-2015, 07:26 PM
How is your answer related to the question?
Is freedom a person, situation or event?
Have I missed something?
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07-11-2015, 07:42 PM
I want my life to have mattered.
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07-11-2015, 07:52 PM
My family. I don't have kids yet but my parents and siblings are what I value most.
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07-11-2015, 09:19 PM
I wonder if Stanford would accept me if I wrote down "money and pussy". They probably get a barrage of near-identical, completely inauthentic essays every year and this would be a nice change of pace for 'em.
Then again, these sorts of ideas is probably what kept me out of the really good schools in the first place.
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What matters most to you, and why?
07-12-2015, 10:09 AM
Myself.
We all know that society doesn't care about the individual. Only I am ever going to be on my side. If you maximize and prioritize the desires of other they will never fully reciprocate.
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07-12-2015, 10:14 AM
Becoming the strongest version of myself.
"You either build or destroy,where you come from?"
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07-12-2015, 10:50 AM
To crush my enemies, to see them driven before me, and to hear the lamentations of their women
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07-12-2015, 12:22 PM
For me it is about control.
My former boss said that people in the business world (but I notice that also in everyday life) are motivated by 3 things - power (the will to dominate oneself and others), money (having resources) and prestige (eg. attention whoring).
I like the rush and the ability to do as I please. It's a primal sensation.
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07-12-2015, 01:23 PM
Banging new chicks and I don't know why... usually directly after I cum when banging a new chick I feel depressed and question my life choices. Then I wake up the next day with the overwhelming desire to bang a new chick.
Its a disease
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07-13-2015, 08:38 AM
^ its no disease, its you biological imperative. Do you feel this way if the girls are of high quality? I know I feel like crap if i get pissed and fuck a chick thats not up to par. Its also nice to keep something going with a quality girl, someone pleasant, hot and skinny. I personally find this can be very rewarding, be sure to keep the limp dick fantasies of long walks on the beach and cheese and crackers by a roaring log fire to a minimum. Enjoy something a little more than a quick pump and dump but don't go getting pussy whipped, and enjoy the good times.