All of you are young people,
and are the ones who are doing the highest things.
Please, never stop learning.
Greetings.
Today I'm about to introduce you to a book.
We are active today
to become wealthy, right?
There were a lot of contents which tell you how to become rich.
When we read the book, we can't wrap it up by judging whether or not it was entertaining.
We need to see if there's something we can sympathize
and if there is, please put it
to action as much as possible.
I'm not a professional book reviewer,
so let me explain the contents that I sympathize with
or want to share with you as I read along.
First of all, the title of the book is GRIT.
And when you see underneath, it says 'the passionate persistence that overcomes the power of
IQ, talent, and environment.'
There are a lot of things
the author wrote, but let me read some.
There is a more important factor
than talent or grades that determines your success in life.
That is the content of this book.
It might not show well on the camera, but let me read something you might sympathize with by folding the corner.
Many authors of Charles Darwin's biography doesn't claim he is a man of extreme intelligence.
He was a man of persistence.
Even in the prologue of Darwin's book, it says something similar.
He confesses:
I cannot understand things as quickly as those who are intelligent.
I also lack the power to prolong abstract ideas.
He says he isn't the one to be the great mathematician nor philosopher,
with memory below average.
He says his memory was so poor
that he couldn't remember the date or a line from a poem after a few days.
Such great men used the expression 'the persistent one' to describe themselves.
There's no way I can compare myself to Charles Darwin,
but I am similar to his style.
I'm slow in learning.
I don't understand nor pick things up quickly, and even forget quickly.
I work on selling real estate but am terrible with directions.
But I did it persistently.
And when I did, all the others were faster than me at the start,
but I surpassed them later.
Shall we move on?
The word passion may sound weird because it is a word used
to express an intense emotional state.
To many people, passion may sound the same as enthusiasm or obsession.
However, when I asked about the conditions of success during the interview with successful people,
the passion they told me was a different kind.
They said the persistence
that doesn't change over time rather than the depth of passion.
I absolutely sympathize with this.
I love passionate person.
But I have seen so many people who have passion but lack persistence.
But when you see here,
successful people mentioned persistence over a long time rather than the depth of passion.
I sympathize with this part so much.
I wish you also achieve your goal by having
both enthusiasm and persistence.
Let's read some more.
Is passion a correct term to describe someone who dedicates themselves to something for a long time?
Some say we need to find a better term,
and maybe they are right.
But what is important is that
we see a lot of enthusiasm,
but we rarely see a continuous one.
"But we rarely see a continuous one."
I bet the continuous passion is success itself.
Let's go on.
The expression where they compare passion to firework is inappropriate.
The firework has its brilliant flame go out in a few seconds,
and only leaves a hissing sound, a stream of smoke, and fancy memory.
On the other hand, GRIT shows a passion like a compass.
You may have to spend time to get a compass in order,
but once you do, it leads you in the right direction, even in a long, curved place.
The important key word here
is continuous passion,
I think.
Another story to sympathize.
A person called Jeff Bezos conveyed this congratulatory message to the graduating students.
Look for something that you can enjoy the most in life.
That's the job I would advise him to take.
Life is short.
Follow your passion.
There is a question to which I couldn't give an answer.
Stable job vs Enjoyable job.
If someone asks me that, what answer should I give?
I kept thinking about it.
About a year?
It wasn't long ago.
About one or two years ago, I finally made a decision.
When our children,
say, my child asked me a question,
"Shall I work for a large company? Or shall I do what I love?"
Without a second's hesitation, I'll answer, "Do what you love."
If I may add,
when I look at my juniors working at large companies or as good, stable public servants,
they really believe that their hardships are over,
once they enter the large companies or become public servants.
They seriously believe that from then on, there will be only happiness for them.
No, that's when the real life starts.
You comfort yourself from receiving higher salary than others.
And the public servant, no disrespect intended here,
comforts oneself, because the job is secured until retirement.
Then, at some point, you fall into mannerism,
and once you're out in the real world, you realize that you know nothing.
When I see such happenings, I feel deeply sorry.
So when you're thinking about yourself or your children,
I want you to
recall my story, at least once.
Well, here is good phrase.
'Fall 7 times, rise 8 times.*' This is a famous idiom.
(*basically meaning, never give up)
If I ever want to get a tattoo,
I'll engrave this idiom in indelible ink.
'Fall 7 times, rise 8 times'
When toddlers start walking, how many times do they fall?
In order to walk properly?
10 times? 100 times? 1000 times?
They keep falling, right?
Then they start to walk properly.
I think that this comment is very important.
Everyone fails.
No exception.
For those toddlers who are learning to walk without any thoughts,
falling is not a failure.
And in the end, they stand up and walk.
But the older you get and the more you know something,
you begin to feel afraid of that failure.
Then you stop doing what?
You stop challenging.
You don't even dare to try.
Yet you want to become rich.
'Fall 7 times, rise 8 times,' and other things I've said, please keep them in mind.
I hope that all of you will continue to practice that phrase, and to challenge.
And become successful.
Here is another good story.
A survey was conducted on 2,000 American adults.
People with higher GRIT scores are more likely to enjoy a healthy emotional life.
Regardless of how happiness was measured,
when the GRIT score was at the highest, the happiness was proportioned based on that score.
A study was released saying that being steadfastly passionate is proportional to happiness.
In other words,
if you keep working hard, you will earn money and be happy.
Game over.
It's written by a Ph.D, so it must be right.
Now, since there is a mention of Nietzsche,
well, I couldn't memorize Nietzsche's quotes,
so I searched and wrote them down like this.
Can you see it? I wrote it down.
This is
when you're having a hard time
like right now or maybe later, I want you to listen to this carefully now,
and remember it afterwards.
A ship sailing to a far away destination cannot sail quietly without encountering a storm.
The storm is always a friend of those who move forward.
There is joy of life in suffering.
Sailing without storm, how dull is that?
The more severe the hardship, the more my heart beats.
The mind is elevated by wounds and new strength rises from them.
It's pretty much the same story.
As I said earlier,
any storm,
any hardship,
any failure,
any wound...
You, as well as I, must believe that those things turn into strength, so don't withdrawal from them.
If we believe in that,
we can practice that belief.
And it will be realized in the end.
Surely you all already know this.
Well, that's is for this book.
I reduced it as much as possible, so it ended quickly.
Let me summarize this book, 'GRIT' by myself.
First of all, the title says everything about the book.
The power of passion and perseverance that surpass IQ, talent, and environment.
This book is just explaining its title by listing specific examples.
But there is this one thing I want to say to you while looking at the book.
That is, only those who think can do it.
If you don't think, you can't do it.
So my last advice to you is
I'll leave a comment before wrapping it up.
To quote Henry Ford.
Whether you think you can,
or you think you can't – you're right.
When we want to achieve something,
we have to think about what it is that we want to achieve right.
But there are those who either don't or can't think about such things,
or won't listen to others who suggest them ideas.
For me, personally, the third type of person annoys me more than the first two.
Many famous people have their own variations of this statement.
I made a video on Jack Ma's famous saying?
Please do check it out.
Whatever it is that you guys do,
always believe in yourself and know that you can do it.
You guys are capable of anything.
Now, I'll pick out a few more famous sayings from Henry Ford.
The majority of people who work in neglected fields end up becoming rich.
When I first did an auction,
this property in itself
had a lot of strange negative connotations.
I became known as a 'real estate agent'.
It's a commonly used term these days right? Real estate agent.
There aren't many people who call those who work in real estate as 'real estate experts'
'Real estate agent'
I don't think the title 'agent' is perceived as a good thing.
So the image of the real estate business isn't a positive one.
And now that people have started to become interested in real estate,
auctions are perceived unfavorably now.
We're not at that stage anymore because we're interested in auctions and real estate.
What stage should we be at now?
What should we care about now?
You guys are interested in real estate right?
Interested in auctions right?
That means you have to pay attention to the auction that no one else does.
Now, you guys are slowly becoming rich. Even right now.
Always believe that you are capable of anything.
I hope you guys can become interested in something that others neglect.
Now, how about another example?
Money doesn't change people,
it just takes off their masks.
If someone is naturally arrogant or greedy,
money just brings out those already existing personalities.
Firstly,
Koreans like to say aloud that money isn't important to them,
but deep inside they think otherwise.
Secondly,
while they say aloud that money isn't really important to them,
they commit all sorts of bad actions?
Many people do this for money.
And then we move on to the next level.
It's time for you guys to be alert.
You devise a goal for yourself, work towards that goal,
do things that other people don't care for,
then money will come to you.
When money comes in,
you guys have to be careful to not act like that.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't be greedy.
How should I say this, the greed that's right in front of you!
Just be careful of that.
I'm going to make more money, I'm going to become a better person, I'm going to look far into the future,
if you think these things then you wouldn't behave badly.
I'll read one last one.
Anyone who stops learning, whether it be in their 20s or 80s, will grow old.
A person who always strives to keep learning will remain young.
The greatest thing in life is to maintain one's youth.
The greatest thing in life is to maintain one's youth, I'll go backwards.
It's not money, honor, or wealth.
The greatest thing is to stay young.
But those who keep learning are always young.
You guys are all young people.
Young people who are doing great things.
So please never stop learning.
Now, I'm a little embarrassed to call this a book review.
I just wanted to talk about what I found relatable.
