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Lightbulb Moment Story Template

We believe in theÌýpower of storytelling to enable new ideas. The Lightbulb Moment Story Template provides a framework to share your professional story that can enable students to build confidence in the exploration of opportunities by contextualizing failure in the narrative of your success and charting pathways through the unknown.

Beginning
  • Who were you before the light came on?
  • How did you feel about your future?
  • What questions and/or doubts did you have?
Middle
  • What happened that answered some of your questions and/or addressed your doubts?
  • Who helped flip the switch?
  • How did you meet them?
End
  • What did you learn?
  • How did you and/or your path change?
  • Has your course changed since?
Reflection
  • What made you feel you belong where you are—or not?
  • What systems enabled your success—powered the light?

Lightbulb Moment

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