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Favorite quotes from "part asian - 100% hapa"

In the book part asian - 100% hapa,

participants were asked to answer the question "Who are you?"

thai, indian, scottish, lithuanian

Really? You don't look Thai. Well let me look again. Yeah now I
can see it around your eyes. You know Thai food is my favorite.
Were you born in Thailand? Do you speak, what is it, Thai-wanese?
Do you dream in English or Thai-wanese? You really don't
have an accent at all.

japanese, swedish, english, irish

I am the dialectic of the melting pot.

I am samurai - annoyingly errogant, intellectually

fearless, eyes trained to observe, mind to reflect.

I seek communion but do not dwell on sentiment.

I am my Nisei mom's obssession to prove democracy's

eventual triumph.

I am the privelege of freedom - a white man walking

away from whiteness.

I am World War II. After Internment, my mom moved

to chicago where she met my WWII veteran dad. I

am the world opening up. I am my parents defying

war's prejudice & confusion by making babies to love.

But mostly I am "mixed". That's what we called it back

in '69, when I was in sixth grade. Now I teach sixth

graders, & many of them still use the term "mixed". I

like being mixed. It is a good tribe to be in, &

it has many brothers & sisters.

guamanian, filipino

I am a Family Man / People person

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chinese, english, scottish, german

My last boyfriend told me he liked me because of my race.

So I dumped him.

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japanese, french, cherokee, irish

I am millions of particles fused together

making up a far les than perfect

masterpiece. I am the big bang.

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Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell

"The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all."

Now that you know the end of the book you don't have to read it.

Seriously though, his chapters are masterfully crafted. Many begin with the familiar condensed version of popular success stories. You're thinkin "Yeah, that sounds right. Born into priveledge. Genious IQ", then he tells the full story. Success is a combination of timing, nuture, nature, and a lot of hard work. Yes, these are the ingredients we are already aware of, but to hear these true stories layed out with the historical detail around the individual's success (or failure) reminds us of our responsibility to nurture ourselves and others.  

Key's to success (in no paticular order)

Hard Work

• Practice 10,000 hours, or 10 years to master a topic or skill

Nuture 

• Grow up in a culture that values education, discipline, continual incremental improvement and delayed gratification.
• Have social skills

Nature

• Have an IQ that is high enough (it's fine if it's very high, but you will not necessarily benefit more from an extra high IQ if you don't have the other ingredients)

Luck

• Be born when your field of expertise will be needed for an emerging market

Favorite lesson from Outliers paraphrased from my friend Minette (more succinctly than Malcom Gladwell put it):

Westerners say "God will provide."

Easterners say "For every seed you sow you will reap a harvest."

More favorite lessons from Outliers:

Americans say they are the hardest workin people.

Truth - they're not. (The World's Hardest-Working Countries)

Americans have a fundamental problem of allowing their children to take long summer breaks away from school while the rest of the world is hittin the books and becomin that much more skilled. American's need to remember that the world is flat and we have a social responsibility to educate our children to compete in a global market place. Let's not short change them. 

Dr. Alejandro Toledo, Presidente De Puru

We saw Dr. Alejandro Toledo, former President of Puru (Ph.D graduate of Stanford) at Stanford. Woo!

Check it.
"Alejandro Celestino Toledo Manrique (born 28 March 1946) is a Peruvian politician and economist. He was President of Peru from 2001 to 2006. Toledo studied at the local state school, G.U.E. San Pedro. At age 16, with the guidance of members of the Peace Corps, Toledo enrolled at the University of San Francisco on a one-year scholarship. He completed his Bachelor's degree in economics by obtaining a partial soccer scholarship and working part-time pumping gas. Later on, he attended Stanford University, where he received a Masters in Economics, a Masters in Education, and completed his PhD in Education (in 1993) at the Stanford University School of Education. After working abroad, he became a professor of Economics at the Universidad del Pacífico in Peru.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Toledo

Different Glenns through morphing

Can you tell me who I look like?

11-Year-Old Graduates From LA College

Check it.
11-Year-Old Graduates From LA College
Halle has seven more years to go before she will graduate from college then.
Time to stop bloggin and go help her with her study habits.
Listen to this young man speak. He can be our next president. That's right baby.

Quote from "The 8th Habit"

"Remember that with each infrastructure shift, over 90 percent of the people were eventually downsized. I believe this is now happening as we move from the Industrial to the Information /Knowledge Worker Age. People are either losing their jobs or gradually being transformed by the new demands of their jobs. I personally believe that over 20 percent of the present workforce is becoming obsolete, and that unless they rededicate and reinvent themselves, within a few years, another 20 percent will become obsolete. 

This Information Age is transforming so rapidly into the Knowledge Worker Age that it is going to take continual investment in our own education and training to stay abreast. Much of this will be done by the school of hard knocks, but people who see what is happening and who are disciplined will systematically continue their education until they acquire the new mind-set and the new skill-set required to anticipate and accommodate the realities of the new age. Hopefully this will gradually morph into an Age of Wisdom, when information and knowledge are impregnated with purpose and principles." 

-Steven Covey