On a boring Sunday afternoon, I was watching YouTube when I heard a Korean-American speaking on an EO channel. One of the things he said had a huge impact on me.
“My father told me that as an Asian, I would undoubtedly face discrimination compared to white people, so I have to do 120% or 160% better. And that one sentence had a significant influence on my life.”
What words have had the biggest impact on me?
- Wherever you go, there will always be people who seem like villains. Instead of avoiding them, it’s wiser to know how to make them your ally or how to handle them well.
- Rather than trying to understand a book perfectly from the beginning, it’s better to read through it once and then go back to study it in detail.
- Value yourself and consider yourself worthy.
Getting my driver’s license and meeting Jiye had a big impact on me as well. No matter how much I studied, it was difficult to become good at driving. It’s a skill that improves only by actually driving. The “Speak” app had a huge impact on my way of learning English. No matter how much I read and listened, if I couldn’t write or speak the language, it wasn’t real English. Similarly, even if I read many coding books, if I couldn’t write code, it wasn’t really coding
Challenge makes me strongger. If I didn't register NLP class after completing military service, I couldn't understand LLM ops job.