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Personal Leadership Journey Essay

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This is It! Looking back to when we first began the semester in week one, I can remember not really expecting to gain much out of this class. I remember thinking that this was just another liberal education requirement that I had to fulfil to graduate. After having gone through OLDP 1301W, I can attest to the fact that it was certainly not just another liberal education requirement. The class really pushed me outside of my comfort zone. The first memorable moment that I would tell someone several years from now was our first major assignment, the Personal Leadership Journey. Although this assignment took a while to prepare, what I really learned from this assignment was the value being vulnerable can add to a group of people. In my Personal Leadership Journey, I talked about things that I haven’t even shared with my best friends; quite frankly, things I’m scared to share with other people. This was meaningful because I found out that there is another person in our community that shared a similar experience. From a personal standpoint, this gave me comfort that I’m not the only one going through an experience like this, and that other people face my …show more content…

After learning that leaving my comfort zone helped me to learn more about myself, more about others, and challenge my preexisting beliefs. Going forward, I plan to use this to learn more about things I don’t understand very well. One example of this is I don’t fully understand how options and derivatives work in finance. However, I am very interested in commercial lending. Recently, I’ve learned you can use options pricing models to price loans. Because of this, I am going to go outside of my comfort zone and learn how these two relate to grow as a commercial

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