Go out and make those connections, meet people, have conversations.
It may land you a dream job. My friend got an engineering internship in China by playing cards with a kid on a plane!
It may land you funding. It may get you invited along to a fabulous experience. Or an invitation to meet someone amazing. Or it may just give you an idea or insight that gives you a new perspective on your life.
Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.
I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.
When people ask me abut my influences growing up, I tell them about my piano teacher, Mrs Langtree. I went to my first piano lesson when I was 7...
I've noticed in contests I've been on the judging panel for that those who have an expertise in a field, are more critical of entries that cross...
When you learn something for the first time, everything is new to you. So you explore, you try different things, you fall down, you fail, you fail, and...
What's in it for the other person? If you look at everything from this perspective, you can get anything you want in life.
Am I working towards a larger life goal? Am I learning anything? Does this help keep a roof over my head? I focused on a number of activities while I...
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Today, the most interesting part of the day was a session called "Open Space", where some people wrote topics they were interested in discussing on...
I find that many people my age are quite lost. They don't know what to do with their lives, they don't know what their dream job is, they don't know...
When I was touring schools with Geoffrey Rush and we were answering questions in front of hundreds of kids, lots of them said, "I really what to be...
If you tell people you are going to be at X location at X time, people take your word for that. If you’re not there, they decide that next time,...
