Second week - #MazdaStudentChallenge and happiness

Hey guys and welcome to read my second blog post! Step by step it feels easier to write a blog. Anyhow, writing this blog is very good way to learn because you have to think what you have learned in past week.

Mazda student challenge

We had only two days school attendance in this week but those days were full of instructive things. Thursday we got two speakers from Mazda: Brand director, Markku Riekkula and Brand manager Aki Kaukola. They told us about brands, marketing and gave some interesting perspectives.

Our first case #MazdaStudentChallenge has also started now. The purpose of this case is to create new marketing ways for Mazda2 -car. Each team will use Mazda2 -car for one day and make a marketing video about it for a specific target group. Our talented digicoaches kept video editing workshop for us and that would be very useful during the case.  I am looking forward the next few weeks when we are going to implement the case.

Aki Kaukola

We were able to explore the Mazda cars

Social skills and happines

On Friday we met in Laurea Leppävaara campus and talk about happiness etc. We had a few amazing guest speakers there. First one was Chris Evatt who told us how important is to have good social skills in every part of life. That is something which I totally agreed.

Second speaker was straight from South Korea, Kyla Mitsunaga, TED speaker and a professor. She told us a shocking fact that only 13% of people are happy with their life which means 87% are unhappy. I cant't believe this because in my point of view life is to short to be unhappy. In working life it doesn't mean that every day or even every week should be like peace of heaven. You should be realistic and have targets which make you happy when you reach them. If you are unhappy, you cant't be as good and motivated as you can be. Without motivation you are not ready to develop your own career. Happiness is keyword to everything and it's all about your own attitude. So just do things that makes you happy! :)

Thanks for reading this second week thoughts. Hope you have had an amazing and relaxing weekend!

Lotta

Photos by Teemu Reunila