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But reinventing yourself can be very hard. You can face a lot of resistance at times.
但是重塑自己是非常難的。你時(shí)常會(huì)遇到許多阻礙。
When I was nearly done with my PhD, I got bitten by that entrepreneurial bug.
在我快拿到博士學(xué)位的時(shí)候，我開始心心念念想創(chuàng)業(yè)。
I was in Silicon Valley, and so writing a thesis in the basement didn't seem as interesting as starting my own company.
我當(dāng)時(shí)在硅谷，在地下室寫論文無趣極了，跟自己開公司沒法比。
So I went to my very traditional Korean parents, who are here today,
因此我去找我那非常傳統(tǒng)的父母，他們今天也在現(xiàn)場(chǎng)，
with the task of letting them know that I was going to drop out from my PhD program.
我想告訴他們我打算放棄自己的博士學(xué)位。
You see, my siblings and I are the first generation to go to university,
事實(shí)上，我和我的兄弟姐妹是第一代上大學(xué)的人，
so for a family of immigrants, this was kind of a big deal.
而對(duì)于一個(gè)移民家庭來說，這是件大事。
You can imagine how this conversation was going to go.
不難想象這次對(duì)話會(huì)變成什么樣。
But fortunately, I had a secret weapon with me,
但幸運(yùn)的是，我有秘密武器，
which was a chart that had the average income of all of the graduates from Stanford PhD programs,
那是一張圖表，上面展示的是斯坦福博士畢業(yè)生的平均收入水平，
and then the average income of all the dropouts from Stanford graduate programs.
還有從斯坦福退學(xué)的人的平均收入水平。
I must tell you -- this chart was definitely skewed by the founders of Google.
我必須得說，這張圖表的數(shù)據(jù)分布絕對(duì)發(fā)生了偏移，因?yàn)楣雀璧膭?chuàng)始人們。
But my mom looked at the chart, and she said, "Oh, for you -- follow your passion." Hi, Mom.
但是我媽媽看著那張圖表，對(duì)我說，“哦，我支持你！追隨你的激情吧。”謝了，媽媽。
