College Application Success

How narrative wins the numbers game I recently wrote about the importance of self-narratives to internal achievements like growth, healing and resilience. Today, let’s look at the role of self-narrative in successes such as winning the elite college admissions...

Write Like a Pro: Ersun Warncke

Where writing and billion-dollar tech collideThis week’s Write Like A Pro interview features Ersun Warncke, a senior software engineer with over 15 years multinational experience. He’s also my younger brother, so I’ve had a front-row seat to his dazzling verbal and...

Narrative Boundaries

Writing the authentic selfWhere does your narrative begin and end? Never mind inciting incidents and resolutions; tell me where the borders are in your story about who you are, what people are like, how the world works and where you fit in it. If we assess our...

Write Like a Pro: Alazne Portela Huerta

How a Biotechnology student uses wordsThis week’s Write Like A Pro interview features Alazne Portela Huerta, a third-year biotechnology student at the Universitat Politècnica de València (Valencia Polytechnic University), Spain’s top-ranked biotech program.A lively...

Success in the Present Tense

Your finest moment is now Not long ago, I spoke to my best friend from university. She is a hilarious, wise, accomplished woman who happens to be the CEO of a publicly traded company and mother of two brilliant children. Of a mutual college friend, she remarked: “He...