What you learn from AIESECers

Or rather, what I've learned from Joaquin's fight to start @ here at the ESPOL.

1) Passion is stronger than knowledge, because it is the bringer of both knowledge and charisma.
In two weeks, he has learned more about the AIESEC Way and what we stand for than I do after almost two years. And he can articulate it. It puts me to shame now when I describe @ as I have learned to -- as a leadership development and and student exchange organization -- because Joaquin has pointed out to me what I already knew: that our goal is the @experience (and by that, leadership development) -- and exchange is just one of many steps in that experience.

2) The most powerful phrase in leadership is You Can.

He told me that there would really have been no chance of AIESEC at the ESPOL without the unshaking support of current MCP Deisi Yunga, because she said he could do it -- and then gave him what he needed to move forward. In that statement, I recognized again the power of simple belief to make things happen. We have to take the risk that we'll fall and say yes to people who have not yet proven themselves -- or nothing ever happens.

3) One simple (and reachable) goal is better than five lofty ones
And that, my darling EB, we can stand to learn from!