About
About Living Large
Living Large was started on the belief that meaningful relationships and meaningful dreams are the foundation of a meaningful life.
Your dreams don’t have to be huge or impossible-sounding. They just have to be bigger than who you are today. Acting on your dreams forces you to become a bigger person– that’s the true prize at the end of the day.
So let’s live large, not just in our careers, but in every other area of our lives, too. And let’s not forget that, as Dr. Scott Sticksel says, life is relationships. The rest is just details.
About Daniel
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Daniel Wong is passionate about personal growth, and he is interested in anything related to maximizing your education, career and life.
His determined pursuit of personal growth and of a life of even greater abundance began at the age of 19, when he realized that he had achieved many things, yet was not experiencing the fulfillment he desired.
Daniel suddenly became aware that achievements and accolades—no matter how amazing or noble—never truly satisfy, if they are not motivated by the right purpose. He started on a journey of intense, holistic personal development—physical, emotional, mental, spiritual. Through it, he discovered many keys to leading a life of abundance, and that we can all love life so much more than we do now.
He especially enjoys working with students and young adults to help them avoid the mistakes he made in the blind pursuit of success, while simultaneously empowering them to run their own race, rather than the race their parents or teachers expect them to run.
Daniel was so eager to share his transformation from unhappy overachiever to happy straight-A student that he ran his first seminar entitled “Why Is My Life Going Nowhere? And What I Can Do About It,” in July 2009. This seminar aimed to help participants find new purpose and passion in school and work. Daniel has also given talks on topics such as goal-setting and developing a personal vision for your life. Daniel wrote a biweekly column for Duke University’s The Chronicle. In April 2011, he had the opportunity to give a TEDx talk at Duke University entitled Realistic Idealism: Seeing People as People.
His first book, The Happy Student: 5 Steps to Academic Fulfillment and Success, will be published by Morgan James Publishing in early 2012.
Daniel studied Mechanical Engineering and Economics at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. He works as an engineer and resides in Singapore.
