BizCamp 2010 - Day 1

I am writing to share with you the experience I lived in the last two days, BizCamp 2010, a business camp for students. Here, through a series of workshops and sessions on the topics of success and how to achieve it, how to set goals, how to follow your dreams and many other personal development skills, I have met a whole bunch of extraordinary people and it was an incredible experience, really helpful for me.

Day 1

Day one was focused generally on the idea of reaching success. There were many speakers, each of them with a creative but very different style from the others. Among the ones who presented there was Alina Constantinescu, who talked about the importance of social media in gaining success and Mihail Musat who had some outstanding performances when being in front of the public.

She stated three principles that can lead to a success also determined by the personal network of relationships with the others. These principles are FIND OUT (be aware of the existing opportunities that surround you), CHECK OUT (show interest towards the others, create your network) and WORK OUT (get involved and be proactive).

Beside these steps, there were also some ideas that were outlined throughout the entire presentation:

• Precaution can be dangerous when it doesn't make room for new opportunities.
• When you start something new, begin with whatever you have and improve it later on in the process of building it.
• The worst thing that may happen to you is not the lack of success, but the lack of anything happening to you.

Then, Mihail Musat, the founder of LumeBuna.ro tried to send us the message that success is a relative term. Therefore, my definition of success may be totally different from yours and so on. Interpreted in another way, even failure may be a means of succeeding due to the fact that we all should learn from our mistakes.

Through some simple examples and stories from his own experience, he succeeded (of course from my point of view due to the relativity of the term :D ) in getting across some simple but important ideas:

• Never be impeded by your own thoughts. Never try finding reasons for a thing I want to do but for a particular reason it is "not recommended".
• What will I choose? A potential failure or the lack of a potential success? (no pain, no gain)
• It is much more important to know what I DO want than what I DON'T want.
• Do things that you are passionate about.
• "Experience is not what happens to a man but what a man does with what happens to him" (make proper use of your personal experience)

After that, there came a series of workshops that emphasized the importance of a mix between passion, work and creativity in your way to success, three elements that make a difference.

There were also some funny parts of the day, like when we were the first in our country to see the new Coca Cola cold season commercial :)



In the end it turned out to have fulfilled our expectations and it was definitelly a really nice thing to take part in.

Coming next - BizCamp 2010 Day 2 :D