Fellow:Nicholas Sinai

Bio

Aspiring entrepreneur Nicholas Sinai is a first year Business Administration major at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Nick's current interests include: child development/education, computer science,critical thinking, life management, performance psychology, philosophy, physical fitness,pursuing genius, service-based startups, Kickstarter campaigning. Nick enjoys collegiate style wrestling, competition, discussing philosophy, good music, good reads, hanging out in the sun,learning new skills, meeting passionate people, traveling, making memories worth more than all the money in the world. Nick's "Thing Goals" include: buy an Aston Martin before graduation, buy a private jet before age 30, buy a castle and an island before age 50. Nick's "Experience Goals" include: have a conversation with Anthony Robins, pay for a family vacation to Disney World, learn from an Ivy League MBA program either Harvard, Stanford, or Wharton, speak at TEDGlobal event, retire my parents, raise my kids to be curious, action-oriented achievers who believe they can do anything.

Other:

Current book: The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

Current favorite quote: "I do not fear not being successful, I fear not being great"

Current favorite poem:

Good Timber by Douglas Malloch

The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.

The man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.

Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.

Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.