What you seek is seeking you
MiM student Gaurav Singh shares insights from his Cape Town Global Experience
When London Business School (LBS) Masters in Management student Gaurav Singh signed up for LBS’s Global Experience (GE) course in Cape Town, he made his choice on gut feeling. The course title, “Igniting Creativity and Curiosity in Pursuit of Sustainability”, spoke to him but he wasn’t quite sure why.
When he landed in South Africa and joined 80 plus other students on the experiential learning course taught by Richard Hytner, Adjunct Professor of Marketing at LBS, however, he soon found an immersive course that offered far more than he had imagined. Being out in the world, listening to people, and watching how ideas took shape in places outside his experience, taught him how to think differently.
In his own words, Gaurav says “a GE is not a checklist. It’s not a photo-op. It’s a week where you’re asked to observe, absorb, and engage. If you do that with even a little intention, you’ll return with more than a set of notes. You’ll return with a different view of the simplest things.”
If you want to learn more about experiential learning and what Gaurav discovered on his Global Experience, you can read his insightful article in Poets & Quants.
