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Important lessons I learned from traveling/backpacking

中国有句古话:“读万卷书不如行万里路”. It is an old Chinese saying equivalent to “The most valuable lessons in life can never be expressed in black and white, but must be experienced”
I never thought I could just pick up a bag, take my car and disappear.  But now looking back, I couldn’t have been more thankful as it was probably one of the best decisions I made in recent years.

life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all–Helen Keller

In university, you get a false perception that everything of importance can be found in books. But actually, many things in life are very hard to put in black and white. There is a reason why many agree that experience is the greatest teacher of all.

I was lucky enough that when I quit my old job, the lease was also about to expire so I took advantage of the situation at the time; hired a storage unit and moved my man cave into it within a day, booked a ferry ticket the same night, took my car and disappear from the city the next day. From then on, for a period of three months I was constantly on the move, from one backpacker to another, one camp to the next, one city to a new one…….This traveling/backpacking experience opened up my eyes and had me lived in a different world that forced me to think and reevaluate what’s important,what to value more and how to live the life I wanted to live.  It was a priceless lesson that I think every individual with the opportunity should attend. As Buddha saids: “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.”

Here are the vital lessons traveling taught me:

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Factors affecting organizational knowledge creation and sharing in New Zealand firms

Conference Abstract:
PLS17 – Abstract – Final

Below is the Preso I prepared aims to give a quick overview of the entire thesis. Here I am trying to explain the thesis in the form of customer journey mapping, incorporated with some creative and design thinking stuff.

it touches the following domains of knowledge:

  • Economics (K-economy theory)
  • Knowledge management
  • Organisational theory (Dynamic theory of organizational knowledge creation)
  • Psychology/Sociology (Social exchange theory, Social processes, Trust,intrinsic and extrinsic rewards&motivation)
  • Research Design
  • Survey design and pretesting
  • Choropleth mapping
  • Statistical modelling and analysis (PLS-SEM, Imputation, Q-sort, Content validity checks, Non-responses bias, Item validity tests, Convergent validity, Discriminant validity)
  • Web scraping and other Programming

MCDEM by iverson_zhou on 500px.com
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Thanks those who participated the survey for my thesis.

It has been a really tough and long journey to pull this piece of work together which required me to step into uncharted territories to learn and apply new knowledge. Most importantly, the thesis would not have been possible in the absence of the willingness and effort survey participants had put in.
Thankfully the work received high recognition and an A+ grade. My supervisor and I are in the process of turning it into a journal article. Will send all participants relevant link(s) once the publication is complete.

I would like to thank all the participants once again.  Prize draw winners have been contacted and all prizes have been sent to the provided address details.

 

Link to the original survey page is here

 

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