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Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play One of the hardest part about pursuing our dreams is dealing with rejections, and persuading other people to give us a chance. The most difficult aspect of writing my book was that I had to convince successful and therefore very busy people to meet with me and give […]

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play I share with you a story about how I got into MIT when the odds were very much against me. I went to a public high school in a bad school district (so bad that a lot of parents in the neighborhood changed their addresses to send their […]

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play I have been fortunate to have had many mentors in my life who encouraged and helped me to achieve my dreams. One of them is Kyung-sook Shin, one of the most famous writers from Korea. I have been grateful to have known her for many years, as my […]

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Dennis Hong is the Professor and the Founding Director of RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) at UCLA. When Dennis was six-years-old, he saw Star Wars for the first time and he was absolutely mesmerized by the robots he saw in the movie. He knew that one day, he […]

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Today’s episode is Part 3 of my conversation with Michael Kim which we have been continuing for the past two episodes. In this episode, Michael is answering questions many of you have sent about goal-setting, time management, building meaningful relationships, and about happiness and unhappiness. If you haven’t […]

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Google Play Today’s episode is Part 2 of my conversation with Michael Kim which started last week in episode 31. We are continuing to talk about what kinds of situations lead to feelings of unhappiness and different ways of approaching them. We can learn a lot about ourselves from our emotions […]