{"id":8889,"date":"2016-05-19T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T08:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/?p=8889"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:05:54","slug":"burr-burton-academy-success-what-you-make-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/burr-burton-academy-success-what-you-make-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Burr &#038; Burton Academy: Success&#8230;What you Make of Life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Burr-Burton-school-621.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Burr-Burton-school-621.jpg\" alt=\"Burr &amp; Burton school 621\" class=\"wp-image-7160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Burr-Burton-school-621.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Burr-Burton-school-621-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Burr-Burton-school-621-768x326.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last December, on the invitation of Michelle, a Grinnell College friend, I <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/testimonial\/burr-and-burton-academy-manchester-vt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visited Burr and Burton Academy<\/a> in Manchester, VT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the three-day visit, I talked to a number of students and spoke at a number of classes as well. The following is a video of one of presentations I gave Jason Pergament&#8217;s class. You can read his testimonial <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/testimonial\/burr-burton-academy-jason-pergament\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>. (You can read the testimonial by another teacher, Lauren Silver, <a href=\"https:\/\/dorjegurung.com\/blog\/testimonial\/burr-burton-academy-lauren-silver\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The presentation was made to a group of Freshman students about the meaning of success to inspire them to be what they want to be, to inspire them to dream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"BBA   Success What You Make of Life\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OH6n0QzZscg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live life in others&#8217; terms, you&#8217;ll fail&#8230;no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>Live life in ones own terms, you&#8217;ll succeed&#8230;no matter what.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, ones success is measured by oneself, so therefore, success is what you make of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Success...What you Make of Life #Nepal #followingonesdreams","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[160,197],"tags":[207,105,60,143,208,139,142,202],"class_list":["post-8889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-personal-stories","category-presentations-and-speeches","tag-bhote","tag-caste-based-discrimination","tag-free-dorje-gurung-campaign","tag-government-school-education","tag-pokhara","tag-poverty","tag-private-school-education","tag-st-xaviers-school"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Burr-and-burton-Academy-624-feat-image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Jbro-2jn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29827,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8889\/revisions\/29827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dorjegurung.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}