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More About Me

I'm passionate about

technology and science
teaching and learning
Making a meaningful life
language
writing
reading

An idea worth spreading

My first TED talk experience was extraordinary. I want to do it again with a better structure, content, and delivery in the future. I am a conscious individual who constantly, steadily, and persistantly tries to become a high quality person. In so doing, I will improve my personality and quality as a human being as well as a teacher. Also, I love to perfect my skills as a Korean language teacher, translator, speaker, and writer.

Talk to me about

Education, Language, Korea and Korea, Culture, Human, Brain, Innovation, Enlightenment, Environment

People don't know that I'm good at

People don't know that I'm very good at discerning people's minds. It is not very hard to know as Rebecca Sochs once talked in TED.

My TED Story

I love all the TED talks; my favorite is Dave Eggers' Once Upon a School. As an educator, I hope there are many people out there try to educate younger ones. Also, I love Sir Ken Robinson. He is an extraordinary educator I want many people to know about his essence of teaching.

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  A comment on Conversation: What picture or scene can represent "Positive Thinking"?

  Mar 9 2012: A smiley face:-).
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  A comment on Conversation: What do you have to be grateful for today?

  Jan 6 2012: I was very greatful today that I can take people's critiques about me without making them personal any more. That I am becoming more and more positive being.
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  A comment on Conversation: What do you have to be grateful for today?

  Jan 6 2012: Hello Ms. Colleen Steen, I have a great deal of respect for you as your comments that I read are insightful, considerate, and reasonable. People like you do make TED possible and allow people who are willing to listen to open their minds. It will be delightful to see you in person...
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  A reply on Conversation: What do you have to be grateful for today?

  Jan 2 2012: Yes, knowing TED has been the most influence in my life. It provided me a sense of belonging to earth, people, and myself.
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  A comment on Conversation: What do you have to be grateful for today?

  Jan 2 2012: I am grateful that I am healthy, conscientious, alive, and able to appreciate the fact that being able to be alive is a precious gift. Also, I am very grateful about the existence of TED. It has been a profoundly positive platform for so many concepts I can list: community, humanity, philosophy, science, technology, design, innovation, and life. A list can contain so many concepts. THANK YOU TED!!! By the same token, I appreciate TEDSTERS very much as well. Happy New Year to all of you!!!
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  A comment on Talk: Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain

  Oct 26 2011: What a brillant, brillant, and more brillant talk.
  
  This talk really resonates with the thought about the western (occidental so to speak as apposed to estern or oriental) society we live in.
  
  I grew up in a society where both values from the brain of the right helmisphere as well as those from the left brain hemisphere: south Korea.
  
  I truly believe that what he advocates is an excellent idea for our society to consider to change. Like he concluded, valuing intuitive minds are very beneficial, natual, and comprehensive to understand as well as bring out exellent human performance.

• A comment on Talk: Iain McGilchrist: The divided brain

  Oct 25 2011: Brilliant, brilliant, and more brilliant!
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  A comment on Conversation: What can we do about the constant rise of depression and suicide in young adults?

  Oct 14 2011: I think that it is great to explore this topic.
  
  I feel emphathetic about how difficult young adults might feel to wisely go through a life stage as our society is becoming more confusing with many principles, moral codes, religions, physical interactions, etc. It seems that there are too many choices with too little guidance for the youth to take in every direction.
  
  I hope that my two cents with a personal experience will stop someone to rethink about the concept of depression and suicide. I had depression starting when I was eight years old and all the way upto my adult age due to significantly negative events in my early life. I didn't know it was depression because the environment I had was not designed for me to realize it was. Yet, to suicide was always in my mind.
  
  It was a long journey to go through that tunnel. I held on to my life betting myself that to sustain my life until I heal myself. After that, "if the suicide is the same decision I want to make, it would not be late to do so." On the way, I saw many many people who had much tougher events happened in their lives yet harvesting meaningful lives nonetheless. What I learend was that the causes of my suffering and depression were almost trivial when I let go of my "self" a bit to look at the bigger world. I also learned that even if there is no purpose in my life, if I can win against my own will, I am strong enough tackle the world. I learned how to respect "life" with dignity. After that, I felt as if each day of my lilfe was "gift" had my life not been on this earth.
  
  Of course depression doesn't necessarily come from hard events and times, but I believe that people who have depression can benefit from examining one's perception to check whether that is healthy. If one defeats the suicidal thought, that is a beginning of life. There are so many things one can be grateful just by being alive. Keep that opportunity to feel, know, and appreciate that experience itself for you. You are precious.

• A comment on Conversation: What knowledge changes your perception of whether or not something is beautiful?

  Oct 13 2011: Hello Isaac,
  
  I think that if there is real GOD, He would not mind my "wondering" minds about Him. He should be that big. Ialso catch myself believing GOD as my habits are quite sold one. So, do reconcile the two well as well. I think it will be my conflicts until I die.
  
  The real problem for me at the moment, I, do not believe that there are "ABSOLUTE TRUTHS" unlike you. It seems to me that it is only relations of things other than isolated truth. I also believe that "facts" we believe as they are also are partial truths in relation to other relations.
  
  :-).
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  A comment on Conversation: Who is your Everyday Hero?

  Oct 13 2011: My heroes everyday in my life are kids I teach in my classroom. No matter how vulnerable I feel about not knowing enough to pull their best potential out, they are still full of hopes, believing what I teach them as very valuable knowledge for them. Looking at their eyes trying to fill with newer elements of their lives makes me feel motivated to move forward, learn new things so that I can teach better, and believe that I am shaping their thoughts to make better decisions in their lives.