Motivation and power talk

Yesterday I had a tough day. If you happen not to know why just read my previous post.

Yesterday. I had a visit from an aunt and her family (husband and two kids) at night. I had the most interesting talk with my uncle. He is a teacher at Minho University. I really don't know how to start, so I'll just use points and will explain and comment on them.

1. Opportunity of a lifetime.
Take the most out of it. Ages between 19-25 will define who you are and will mold your brain. This is the time were you make the most important choices of your life.

2. You should have chosen China. BUT!
Yeah, but! But if you really like what you are doing you should continue doing it. "When I put some of my not so good students working on what they liked, they're works were far better than those of the perfect students, who always follow things according to what they are given."

3. There is always a vacancy for the best. 
If you work hard, if you get to be the best through your own means, you'll have no problems finding a job. The best are always employed, in fact, companies lack truly good, the best, employees.


4. Working with the best, will make you the best.
But if you accommodate with the weak, you will become, weak. Now this is trueI will state my own experience with this. He made me think about it and I came to the following conclusion. And will give you my own example, Japanese, the skill I'm forging.

1st year. There were the weak　ones, and I think there was no clear line on who was the best. Many students had high grades, so we were more or less even. This was frustrating. I'm here to be the best, I thought. We were all equal, we were all good.

2nd year. So during the summer vacation I studied. And in the second year the class began having the weak ones, the average ones, and the good ones. It was in the second year that my japanese started improving rapidly, I was focusing on Japanese, this is what I want, this is what I'm gonna do.
Eventually I started having people from my class and from other classes asking me to do and correct their japanese essays. I would only correct and give hints though.
In the second year I worked my ass of for japanese, it was hard, but I did it. And I'm gonna be brutally honest here. I became the best student in the class. But I worked for it.

3rd year. My japanese class had 3 students. When the year started I had already studied everything for the JLPT2, so I could afford to"waste" my time on "studying" things I liked, as I also did though the 2nd year - with more difficulties of course.
However, I was not motivated as I was in the previous two years. I didn't feel anyone fighting, striving to be the best, not anymore, not like in the first year where we were all equally "good".

Now, the 4th year. I'm going to Japan, I'll be in a class with people around my level, and hopefully better than me. My goal is once again to be the best. But I want to fight for it. I want to feel powerful, I want to beat my classmates japanese level. When you work with the best, you always get better. These are times when you need to stand out from the crowd, you need to be different from all the others, otherwise will be just "one more".As the person I like the most in the world would say "be ambitious"!

4. Regardless of what people say against you, keep fighting and doing what you want. 
University is a jungle. But this is your life, not theirs. If they are talking against and bashing you is because they are envy and they can't face the fact that you are better than them.

This is also true. For the 3 years I was in college there wasn't one moment, one semester I wasn't bashed by some people. They always commented negatively that I was always studying, and how I had no social life. They even bashed me in front of people that they didn't even know were my friends (that's how I got to know).

Does one really need to go to the disco and drink alcohol to have a social life? Nuh uh, don't think so...

I will give even give you an example.
This friend of mine, she's actually going to study chinese to Scotland. She was one of the few who bashed me the most through my first year. Until we got to be friends. We started going to the same coffee, and eventually started studying together. Until she got to know me, my real me (the one who's supposed not to be studying all the time), and not the person she saw in the classes, she didn't respect me.
Now she respects me so much to the point that she mentioned in one chinese class that I was her role model. Not bragging about myself here, I just want the reader to see the difference in her attitude towards me after getting to know me.And she even got to see my social life, and be a part of it.

As for my answer to the "who's your role model?" question, I will not mention who it is, but the answer is pretty obvious for those who know me well. I'm sorry reader, for letting you blank.

5. Brain connectivity
The more connections our brain does, the more brighter the ideas that may rise to surface.

6. Feeling of achievement through hard work is the best.
And if you achieve something without working for it, it won't taste as good. It probably won't taste at all.

So this was it.Yesterday I could barely reply, I was only listening. It was like a university lecture. And it was awesome because I could relate to everything my uncle was saying. "Yes! I know ! I even discuss that online (twitter)". Was one of the few replies, apart the many "yes"s I returned to my uncle. Who's like the dark sheep, the guy who everyone doesn't like, the boring dude, the dude that knows too much.

I don't like to make posts one right after the other, but I had to  write this one. After all, what's the purpose of a blog? ...Of my blog? To keep a log on my Japanese studies to see who I was, who I am, and who I'll be.