The common characteristics that I see are enduring ambition/work ethic, emotional resiliency, embracing change, accountability (ownership) and a willingness to help others and subvert your own personal goals to the goals of the organization. 

There is so much growth potential in other English speaking countries like Canada, Australia and the UK.Brandon mentioned in a Podcast that a board member did not want to hear what was possible with the current setup - he wanted to hear what great ideas that was not yet possible.I would love it if the whole organization would embrace that.

My 2017 goal is to embrace minimalism while managing my portfolio of properties.

I decided to embrace the impending doom.

You are an intelligent young man, but if you want to accelerate your progress.........embrace the process..........and act.

If there's an area where they are not friendly to businesses or that particular business was kind of on the edge anyway, so that a recession kills it, and the town, rather than intelligently look at how to make their town friendly to investors and businesses, they decide to just start taxing - without considering that the taxes look great on a presentation screen, but what if people move away instead of pay those taxes - they just rang the death knell for their dying town.Anyway, in my usual concise way, my point is that this will hurt even towns that are smart enough to embrace their university students. 

To do all of this you really have to focus on the long grind and embrace the monk life style...

The program is holding no accountability over this.I really tried to embrace the experience and immerse myself in the program.

Embrace the challenge!

So I guess now I'm fully embracing that as a fairly mature adult who is nowhere near retirement currently.