“Success is more of a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.” This is something that has struck me my entire life, that through good work ethic and keeping rational, one can succeed in life. I didn’t get to college with genius, or start a company with it. Only by keeping myself intact was I able to grow my company, and make sure it never hit rock bottom (At least while I was head of the company).
I believe that without my inventions, we could have been behind in the development of memory in computers. I also made calculators and word-processors commercially accessible for the first time. This may also have taken longer without me. I broke the ground for Asian-Americans to start their own companies and get heavily involved in the development of products and computers.
I guess I should introduce myself. Hi, I’m An Wang. I’m an electrical engineer who created the first kinds of computer memory without the need for mechanical parts. After that, I started my company, Wang Labs, and I became an entrepreneur in word processors and desktop calculators, both of which were very new at the time. If you didn't know, word processors were primitive computers that could only be used to write.
I liked math and science, and was very proficient at them when I was in grade school and barely bothered with the other classes. I even skipped them sometimes, but I always got an A on the exams, which got me through with higher grades. I even liked science so much, sometimes after school I would to the library and read the biographies of western scientists like Galileo, Leonardo da Vinci, and others. I’ve always had trouble with rote memory, or learning through repetition, which made things like writing and concentration especially ...
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...ican who started a large business in the american tech industry. Many of my fellow asian colleagues warned me otherwise, saying it would be wise to stay out of the white-dominated field. I did just the opposite, and after seeing my success many asians proceeded to make their own companies, and further diversify the workforce.
In the end I sum up with something I said in my autobiography, “My education, my research … and my career … have all been enormous fun. My days are spent doing the things I really want to do. The satisfaction of turning an idea into something real never diminishes.”- An Wang
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My grandmother sent me a letter from home, telling the success story of her old Chinese tenants who, through hard work, had become very wealthy in the 9 short years they lived in America. My grandmother embraces the belief that "with hard work, patience and a little help from the model minority stereotype, someday Asians will gain full approval of white America". She believes that Asian Americans are inherently smarter, more diligent and thrifty than other racial minorities of our time. I, on the other hand, am skeptical towards this assumed advantage that other minorities have perceived as "elevators to the ladder of success" in American society. While Asian Americans are able to achieve acculturation by gaining material success, despite this economic advancement, they are unable to assimilate socially into mainstream America because of prejudice and discrimination.
In an April data report, experts from Pew Research Center, a nonprofit organization that conducts data based on social issues, public opinion and demographic changes, reported that “Asian-Americans are the highest-income, best-educated and fastest-growing racial group…they place more value than other Americans do on marriage, parenthood, hard work and career success.” It is biased claims like this are the reasons why Asians are encouraged to be further discriminated agains...
...ginning to result in more and more first and second generation Americans in the business and professional world. More and more Asian doctors, always a popular profession, can be seen today. The recent dot com craze similarly resulted in a disproportionate number of Asians heading up companies, although this has yet to manifest itself in the larger corporations. (no hard data on this, but I could probably find some if you need)
...r own profit. World War II made them lost their businesses at that time. But today American-born Asians have the opportunity of having well-paid jobs. Making them the race to be parallel in economy to that of the whites.
Henry ford, a car maker, once said “If you think you can do a thing or think you can 't do a thing, you 're right.” Henry ford failed two times before succeeding his third ford The Henry Ford Company. His first, Detroit Automobile Company, had folded after Ford failed to ship a working automobile. The second, the Henry Ford Company, later known as, Cadillac Automobile Company after some time it failed partnership dealings. And the last became known as the Henry Ford Company. This shows If you think you can do a thing or think you can 't do a thing, you 're right, because he had a positive attitude and he was able to make his 3rd company a success. this is a quote about how you need to have a positive attitude to succeed this quote applies to my experience as a cross-country runner and thomas alva edison inventing the lightbulb.
My first few years of school I struggled with math the most. I remember losing games in class because I knew the answer but couldn’t get my thought out my mouth in in time. Me not being able to focus on one thing at a time also interferes with things like my speech and motor
Wong, Paul, Chienping Faith Lai, Richard Nagasawa, and Tieming Lin. 1998. “Asian Americans as a Model Minority: Self-Perceptions and Perceptions by Other Racial Groups.” Sociological Perspectives,41 (1): 95–118.
...o “limit Asian Americans’ career opportunities.” In mainstream media, Asian Americans are often overrepresented in number-crunching professions that require minimal language proficiency (e.g., engineering and sciences), but underrepresented in social science and humanities fields that entail superb language and interpersonal communication skills.
Whatever one thinks about all the time tends to happen, hence the title “Think and Grow Rich.” Using the examples of past success, such as his son and Edwin C. Barnes, Hill shows how a burning desire, persistence and other principles, if done effectively, can be combined to create favorable conditions towards success. This book is written to guide anybody, in any occupation, with everyday endeavors, because new inspirations can always be found. Hill stresses principles, methods that have to deal with the mind because it is a powerful weapon. This book was written during the Era of the Great depression, and it could still be used for modern day situations because the techniques, teachings and instructions do not get old.
During senior year in high school, Jobs signed up for an electronics class taught by John McCollum. While in the class in 1969, Jobs met a man named Steve Wozniak, a former graduate of McCollum’s class. Like Jobs, Wozniak was a huge electronics “geek” and the two instantly bonded (Romain Moisescot).
successful person has tried and failed many times, which is one thing that divergent thinking
Have you ever dreamed of being a genius? Genius is not about scoring 4.0 in academic’s cumulative grade point average, mastering seven languages at the age of seven, or having an extraordinarily high I.Q.Genius as referred to Collins Cobuild Advance Dictionary means “a person who displays exceptional intellectual ability, creativity, or originality, typically to a degree that is associated with the achievement of an unprecedented leap of insight”. For example, Albert Einstein is a 20th-century symbol of scientific genius. However, there are negative impacts of being genius such as it leads to psychological problems and disorders, it leads people to do something horrible, and it leads genius people to go against human right.
If the nineteenth century was an era of the Industrial revolution in Europe, I would say that computers and Information Technology have dominated since the twentieth century. The world today is a void without computers, be it healthcare, commerce or any other field, the industry won’t thrive without Information Technology and Computer Science. This ever-growing field of technology has aroused interest in me since my childhood. After my twelfth grade, the inherent ardor I held for Computer Science motivated me to do a bachelors degree in Information Technology. Programming and Math, a paragon of logic and reasoning, have always been my favorite subjects since childhood.
If you do a job that is monotonous / clerical and does not require a lot of logic and reasoning, you lend yourself to boredom and chances are that you would totally arrest your mind’s capacity to think. A simple fact of life, but a ‘life shaping’ matters of truth, it turned out to be. When I used to hear my dad say this, little did I realize that this childhood advice would instill in me a spirit to apply my logic and reasoning to even small things I come across.