IE MBA Application Express yourself: Question I

Show us an activity you enjoy doing.
Tell us how you think it contributes to
your personal and professional
development.

Personal
growth
Out of
comfort
zone
Cultural
exposition

Photography is a way of feeling, of
touching, of loving. What you have
caught on film is captured forever... it
remembers little things, long after you
have forgotten everything.
― Aaron Siskind
Ohrid Lake
Macedonia
Travel & Photography gives me new
perspective, of the moment that translates
into visual thinking.
© 2013 Francisco Chaparro Photography

 Rock climbing is a sport that
unite people, so team oriented
is always a must.
 Focus and endurance are a
common equation in this sport
 Traveling to a remote area
enhances your self-awareness
Montserrat
Spain

Armeña unit
As a Geologist, I need to travel to
different locations to study and
understand diverse processes.
Photo taken in the Pyrenees, Spain
during my Graduate Geology
Program, used as an international
analogue for the exploration of oil
fields in deep water such as the
Gulf of Mexico, offshore Angola,
and others.

 Encourages love for nature and the understanding of the delicate
equilibrium of our mother earth.
 Facilitates companionship with a combination of nature gives another
edge, or taste, to respect of every person peculiarities and values. In
simple terms Humbleness is enriched.
 Boosts creativity because it deals with evidence from millions years
ago; Geologist have to connect this evidence to create a model.

Travel can take you to places that
you never thought possible to
reach.
Riutort Mine, Spain
These are examples of the “source
rock” of oil. Therefore, notion of
natural phenomena can lead to a
better understanding that will help
in my professional career.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
― Plato
“Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.”
― Ernest Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway: A Literary Reference
Travel gives you perspective, to understand worldwide conflicts and create a
consciousness of its consequences.

Belgrade, Serbia
 Travel gives perception, even in
street art appreciation.
 In this representation we can
understand that extreme
development could affect our
natural habitat with the over
exploitation of our renewable
resources; In essence is imperative
to convey in sustainable
development to advance as a
society

Inspiration is everywhere,
it’s a mechanism to
achieve our dreams.
Museum of Nikola Tesla
Belgrade, Serbia
Tesla Coil
Museum of Nikola Tesla
Belgrade, Serbia
“Invention is the most
important product of man's
creative brain. The ultimate
purpose is the complete
mastery of mind over the
material world, the
harnessing of human nature
to human needs.”
― Nikola Tesla, My
Inventions
© 2013 Francisco Chaparro Photography© 2013 Francisco Chaparro Photography

Business ideas are everywhere.
I am still looking for the combination, or
one idea, that can lead to a successful
venture.
Tables with Recycled Material
Budapest, Hungary
Hot Food Machine
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Jimador
Tequila, Mexico
Artisan
Tlaquepaque, Mexico
I always have Respect for all people, no matter their background.
If you want to see the true measure of a man,
watch how he treats his inferiors, not his
equals.
J. K. Rowling

India Chichimeca
Aguascalientes, Mexico
Mosaic Mask of
Tezcatlipoca Mixtec/Aztec
British Museum
London, England
Mexican Independence Celebration
Barcelona, Spain
“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of
intellectual ancestors. The "I" is chained to
ancestry by many factors… This is not mere
allegory, but an eternal memory.”
― Erwin Schrödinger
I Learn to never forget my origins,
wherever I’ve been, and wherever
I go.
© 2015 Francisco Chaparro
Photography

Best Friend’s Wedding
Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
Making Friends
Zaragoza, Spain
Tour Friends
Tirana, Albania
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to
explain. It's not something you learn in school. But
if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship,
you really haven't learned anything.”
― Muhammad Ali
I learn to always make friends in all parts
of the world, create a network of friends
you never know when an advise is
needed. In the same way, never forget
your true friends and Family.

Luxury Hotel
Zurich, Switzerland
W Hotel
Barcelona, Spain
“Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury…to me these have
always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming
manner of life is best for everyone, best for both the body and the
mind.” Albert Einstein
Materialism vs. Experience At this point in my life, I have learned that is
more important to live and experience things that will remain in my soul
forever.

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot
reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength
cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and
intelligence cannot be applied.”
― Herophilus
Restaurants
Brasov, Romania
Frogs
Split, Croatia
“To keep the body in good health is a
duty... otherwise we shall not be able
to keep our mind strong and clear.”
― Buddha
 I have learned to eat healthy. It pays in the long term, to have a
life equilibrium.
 Eating new kinds of food is connected with the excitement of
trying new things.

VW Beetle
Aguascalientes, Mexico
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein
I have learned not to have limits in our inventions or thinking,
no limits can enrich life that translates into a perpetual
exhilarant experience

Sotano de las Golondrinas, 367 m
with Eiffel Tower inlay, 324 m
near Aquisimon, San Luis Potosi,
Mexico
“I have found adventure in flying, in world
travel, in business, and even close at hand…
Adventure is a state of mind – and spirit.”
-Jacqueline Cochran
I have learned to travel in adventure
mode, creating a risk predilection to
overcome fears, creating problem-solving
strategies.

"A sense of humor is part of the
art of leadership, of getting
along with people, of getting
things done"
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
No matter where I am.. I learn to always have sense of humor

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