Dream? What is your dream?

Hello,

This posting might be a little bit heavy, but i need to write this because i think this is very important and i need to share it with all of you guys. I really enjoying this lecture because 2 days before it i am talking about this dream things with my friends. So, enjoy it.

In November 20, there is a guest lecture in my Economic Analysis class and actually the lecture was not about the economy at all but its really inspiring. The guest lecture was Professor Cho Dong Sung, he was getting his Ph.D degree from Harvard and working as a Professor in SNU, now he is in his last year of working and will be retired next February. 

He is such a great motivator, at least for me. His lecture was really give an insight for my and my life, and it makes me thinking once again about my dream and what i want to become in the future, because no one know how future will be look like. 

He started his lecture by asking us what we want to be in the future, and he explain about Ph.D program, the benefit of it, how to get it, and how hard it is. He is a very funny person, really, i adore him. After that he started to talking about the trend. Nowadays, young people tend to get their Ph.D degree because we expected to be live until 100years old and that's why we willing to give 1/3 of our live time to study. He also told us that 9 from 10 of his Ph.D students is female so don't be surprise if in the future most of the professor will be female. 

There are 6 things he mention in order to finish your Ph.D program successfully (take a note that he finish his Ph.D program only in 3 years). There are:

1. Hardworking
2. Ideas
3. Supervisor
4. Thesis Topic
5. Methodology
6. School

Its quite funny for me because he is really honest, he really talking about all the fact he knows even when somehow its awkward. He said that its important to choose the right supervisor, cause sometimes there is a supervisor who had the bad experience in the past when he/she in their Ph.D program and they tend to give a hard time, as hard as his/her experience to their students. Wow.

After that, he was talking about dream. He even talking about the suicide issue in Korea. He said that university students doing that because they don't want to lose their face in front of the others and the easiest way is to end their life. Such a pity. He said its because students in Korea doesn't has a dream, they only doing what their parents want them to do. 

Professor than categorize people into four group:

- People who are really sure about their dream

- People who know their dream but they think it might change in 5-10 years

- People who confused about their dream, is it really their dream or not

- People who don't have a dream at all

Its really interesting. I am really thinking about this. I was calling my dad last week and said i have a new dream and i really want to be it, really. But now, i am thinking about it again, and again. 

While, one of my friends talking to me last week, she said, she felt empty now, she just doing what she have to do without any feeling of it. 

Luckily, professor told us how to find our dream..

First of all, read a book. You need to read a lot of book and get an inspiration from the book.

Second, travelling around. Experiencing so many things is very important in order to find what you like the most.

Third, communicating with people, even with strangers. 

Forth, write a diary. Learning from the past, try to look back and learning.

Fifth, help people who need your help.

And last, love, love the other people around you.

After i am thinking for a while, all of this things are correct. I find my dream after doing all of this things. This professor is really genius. I really text my friends about this and we started to talking about our dreams again.

Thank you Professor for your lecture today, i really really enjoy it.

So i made this post in order to helping all of my friends out there to find their dreams.

Dare to dreaming guys, its free!!!