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A dreamer, innovator, and risk-taker. This is a look into the mind of Connor Edwards, a creative problem solver from Vancouver.

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Hopes and Aspirations

Things that should, and will, happen some time in no particular order.

  • Live in New York for at least a year
  • Learn to play the guitar (acoustic)
  • Get a straight blade shave from an Old English barbershop
  • ✔ Live or study abroad
  • ✔ Graduate business school
  • Hike the West Coast Trail
  • Get an apartment I love
  • ✔ Explore London
  • Cross-country road trip
  • Wear a top hat
  • Give a TED talk
  • Sign a big cheque
  • Find a cool girl *
  • Get a consulting job
  • Get an MBA
  • ✔ Continue blogging regularly
  • Spend a week in Vegas with no accommodations booked
  • Take in an art show
  • Surf in Hawaii
  • Greece
  • Write a column in a newspaper
  • ✔ Bike everywhere (in Copenhagen)
  • Show up at the airport and buy a ticket for the next flight that day
  • East Coast Road Trip
  • Experience St. Patrick’s Day – in Ireland
  • ✔ Visit Rome and the Vatican
  • ✔ Visit Berlin
  • Crash a wedding
  • Write a book
  • Have a whiteboard wall in my house
  • ✔ Eat pierogies in Poland
  • Buy my parents an adventure
  • Go to Hong Kong again
  • Visit Lappland, Sweden – and stay at the ICE Hotel
  • Experience the northern lights
  • Go to Australia again
  • Ride an elephant
  • Japan
  • ✔ Experience Oktoberfest in Munich
  • Experience Oktoberfest in Munich (again)
  • ✔ Go to an Olympic Games on home soil
  • Go to an Olympic Games abroad
  • Be a mentor to someone
  • Give back to Gustavson
  • ✔ Pilots license
  • ✔ Conquer Europe
  • Own at least two homes – one of which I designed
  • Blow a couple of minds
  • ✔ Go to Russia
  • Leave the world a better place than when I found it