In our group meetings I shared stories of faith, business success and lessons I had learned in a more privileged life than many who were serving time with me.
My colleagues were outstanding and I learned a huge amount in a short time.
Elsewhere in the magazine I learned of a communal house in Palo Alto, Calif. called Magic.
When I first joined Google right out of college, I learned a lot in my first six months there.
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That is why the billionaire Mr. Chen, who I wrote about in "What I Learned from A Chinese Billionaire, " walks the halls of hospitals giving out money to poor people as they wait in line for hours to see doctors.
Although I am happy I earned a doctorate in accounting and learned the unique craft of asking an unanswered research question, designing a study and developing a manuscript that can eventually be published in an academic publication, something was still missing from my life.
In Asia, I learned, the productivity of a typical sales associate in beauty products was two-and-a-half times of what we were achieving in the United States.
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"In the early 1980s, I learned a big lesson when I saw some companies here in Mexico failing and some high-profile companies in the U.S. also declining, " Zambrano recalls.
"I made some big mistakes, and I know I let a lot of people down, but I also learned some tough lessons, " he said in a video posted online.
But from sad experience, I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.
But then I had a breakthrough when I went to a conference in 1997 and learned that you can combine these two ideas.
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The night I arrived, we dined with four delightful expat friends at a nice hotel restaurant, where I learned, among other things, that in 1992 a construction crew working for Ross Perot illegally blew up a coral reef so that he could moor his yacht, the Chateau Margaux, at his doorstep.
And when I saw these things in Barack, when we first met and I learned his story, I realized that with Barack I found a real connection, because in his life story, I saw so much of my own.
After the failure of my interior decorating business I realized that in my attempts to rescue it I had inadvertently learned a little about marketing.
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I'm not a lawyer or a prosecutor, but what I have learned in war zones is that the guys with the guns invariably are the guys who have very little, if any, real power.
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What I learned in school was how to play a ska rhythm on a keyboard.
As a downtown NY-er, I learned first hand that the experience of the actors in a trauma is very different from those who are witnesses.
Well, as I learned and Jack learned back in 1993 and '94, these folks have a lot of clout.
Growing up in a number of places overseas, I learned a lesson that serves me to this day: Everyone is different, everywhere you go in the U.S. or abroad.
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Tapa means "lid" in Spanish, I learned from celebrity Spanish chef Jose Andres' Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America.
To earn straight As for two decades in a row, I learned to detach from my own emotions and physical body.
"I learned how to make a small fortune in the baseball business-by starting out with a large fortune, " says Steve G.
In the process, I learned a lot of valuable lessons.
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In my own childhood I learned a hard lesson at a very early age - you can't allow powerful people to bully the weak or to abuse their own power.
Although I never learned about it in my training as a cardiologist, it is quite widespread with reportedly more than 100, 000 people using it in 2007, an increase of 68% from 2002.
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So when KISS was being formed I read everything about the music business because at the same time I was learned how to play chords and play songs and play bass in a band, I was also learning the business, the structure, how it works and how things get done.
But in Italy, I learned I was just a fighter pilot, not a commercial aviation pilot.
In the process I've learned a lot about what you can divine from a simple job posting.
In any case, I have learned a great deal about this since writing my first post on the subject.
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