Cindy Li

Last Thursday (April 9^th, 2009) I had the great pleasure of meeting Cindy Li. Not only did I meet her, but I was also given the opportunity to listen to her speak twice. The day started at 8am at Green Spaces where my Professional Practice’s class met to listen to Cindy speak. From what I could tell, Cindy is a very strong individual; I strongly admire her for her self-confidence. She was able to talk to us not only once and keep everyone very engaged, but twice (formally). I have been to talks before where people will say the exact same things in both talks. Cindy is so passionate about what she does and you can tell when she is talking, it is just like a second nature and she seemed very comfortable up they’re talking to everyone.
On top of doing a talk in the morning and in the evening at Create Here, she also very graciously came back to campus and talked to my class from the time her first talk ended until around 11am. This was also very nice because it was a more comfortable atmosphere and we were able to talk to her one on one, or at least as a small group. It felt so much more personal and she has such a positive personality you can’t help to be intrigued when she was talking. You can really tell she is passionate about what she does.
After the evening talk at create here, we had more time to talk to people and getting to talk to her again, but this time I was able to talk to her briefly one on one and it just made me smile.
There were many things that really stuck out to me during her talks, one of which was when she showed a slide of how she knows people and the importance one person can have on your life. It one of those things, where you might be sitting wondering of why someone was brought into your life, but then you start thinking and realize if this one negative person hadn’t been introduced to you, you might have never met these 5 amazing people.
I also love the fact that she loves food, and taking pictures of it. I used to take pictures of my food and other random things and a lot of my friends in middle and high school would teas me about it. This definitely made me want to pick-up my old habit of taking more pictures.
On top of all this, your avatar… It is very important to keep it recognizable and not to change it constantly. People tend to be very visual and it will make it harder for someone to find you if you are constantly changing your picture. This is just a very brief introduction to some of what she talked about and how i felt about what she was saying.

Thank you so much Cindy for taking the time out to come visit and share your knowledge with us, it was and is greatly appreciated.

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